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" 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 a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath... "
Matthew Arnold - Page 102
by Herbert Woodfield Paul - 1902 - 188 pages
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 95

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 here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night....
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The Tuftonian, Volume 21

1894 - 286 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."...
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New Poems

Matthew Arnold - 1867 - 226 pages
...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...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....
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The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and advocate

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....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."...
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Narrative and elegiac poems

Matthew Arnold - 1869 - 286 pages
...flow Of human misery; we Find also in the sound a thought, Hearing it by this distant northern sea. The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...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!...
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Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Volume 80

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....
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Sea and Shore: A Collection of Poems ...

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....
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Irish Monthly, Volume 43

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...
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Poems of Places: England and Wales

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - 290 pages
...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...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....
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The Church Quarterly Review, Volume 39

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.'...
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