 But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world. Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like...  New Poems - Page 100by Matthew Arnold - 1867 - 208 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1905 - 880 pages
...land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, BO new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain ; And we are...flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night. The emotion with which his poetical voice is often touched must save him from the charge of coldness, a... | |
 | 1894 - 284 pages
...preacher has said, love ; and what is this but the thought of Arnold in the following : — " Ah, love, let us be true to one another! for the world which...peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight Where ignorant armies clash by night."... | |
 | 1868 - 986 pages
...only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating to the breath Of the night wind down tho vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world....flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night." The last poem in the volume thus wails over the departure of Christianity, which the author evidently believes... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1869 - 286 pages
...Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd; But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing...peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and fight, Where ignorant armies clash by night!... | |
 | 1869 - 898 pages
...But now I only hear Its melancholy, long withdrawing roar Betreating to the breath Of the night-winds down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the...peace, nor help for pain ; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.... | |
 | Martha Le Baron Goddard - 1874 - 248 pages
...night wind down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world. AT BAY RIDGE, LI IOI Ah, love, let us be true To one another ! for the world which...peace, nor help for pain ; And we are here as on a darkling plain, Swept with confused alarms of struggle and fight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.... | |
 | 1915 - 826 pages
...land of dreams So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain ; And we are here, as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and fight Where ignorant arms clash by night... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - 290 pages
...cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. Sophocles long ago Heard it on the JEge&n, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow...peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1895 - 588 pages
...the note of its profoundest conviction falls upon our ears, it has far other sound : — ' Ah love, let us be true To one another, for the world which...peace, nor help for pain, And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.'... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - 294 pages
...tremulous cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. Sophocles long ago Heard it on the JEgam, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow...peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, k CHURCHILL'S GRAVE. I STOOD beside... | |
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