The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. 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... The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse - Page 370edited by - 1913 - 1023 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1901 - 872 pages
...the The Armleiuy. one thing worthy to be talked about. Matthew Arnold, in his most unman poem cried: The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd. But— There is no but in the domestic novel, nor even the 6«f sense, the vague, troubled apprehension of... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1867 - 226 pages
...cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. Sophocles long ago Heard it on the JEgean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow...earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled; But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating to the breath Of the... | |
| Robert Hall Baynes - 1880 - 674 pages
...Syrian town ; And on his grave, with shining eyes, The Syrian stars look down. Elsewhere we read : The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd J Bat now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating to the breath Of the night... | |
| 1868 - 986 pages
...name for despair. Writing on Dover Beach, and naturally meditating on tho sea, he thus mourns : — " The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled ; But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating to the breath Of the... | |
| 1870 - 590 pages
...bring The eternal note of sadness in.' And in that he hears a type of departing faith, for he adds : ' The sea of faith Was once too at the full, and round...earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled ; But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Ketreating to the breath Of the... | |
| Alexander MacLeod - 1870 - 328 pages
...bring The eternal note of sadness in." And in that he hears a type of departing faith, for he adds : " The sea of faith Was once too at the full, and round...earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled ; But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating to the breath Of the... | |
| 1872 - 590 pages
...cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. "Sophocles long ago Heard it on the /Egean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow...earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled ; But now 1 only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating to the breath Of the... | |
| 1872 - 1176 pages
...sadness in. I "Sophocles long ago Heard it on the /Kgean, and it brought Into his mind the tut bill ebb and flow Of human misery ; we Find also in the...earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle fuiled ; But now 1 only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating to the breath Of the... | |
| 1882 - 966 pages
...worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born, With nowhere yet to rest my head." or, again : "... The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled, But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating to the breath Of the... | |
| Samuel MACALL - 1875 - 144 pages
...been telling us, in vehement prose, for twenty years." A great, but melancholy comparison truly ! " The sea of faith was once, too, at the full ; and...earth's shore , Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled ; But now 1 only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating to the breath Of the... | |
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