YES! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone. The islands feel the enclasping flow, And then their endless bounds they know. Poems - Page 185by Matthew Arnold - 1878 - 370 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1854 - 544 pages
...thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone. The islands feel the enclaspiug flow, And then their endless bounds they know. ' But...Across the sounds and channels pour : ' Oh, then a louging like despair Is to their farthest caverns sent; — For surely once, they feel, we icere Parts... | |
| University magazine - 1855 - 784 pages
...spring. And in their (lent on slurry nighta The nightingales divinely singt Amt lovely not'-s from sliore to shore Across the sounds and channels pour : " Oh ! then, a longing, like despair, 1ч to their furthest caverns sent ; For surely once they feel, we wer* Parts of a single continent... | |
| 1855 - 804 pages
...the к« of life enlsl'd, With echoing straits between ui thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone: The islands feel the enclasping flow. And tlitn their endless bounds they know. 44 But when the moon their hollows lights, And they ore swept... | |
| William Caldwell Roscoe - 1860 - 546 pages
...the sea of life enisl'd, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone. The islands feel the...shore to shore Across the sounds and channels pour; Is to their farthest caverns sent; • Oh, then a longing like despair, —For surely once, they feel,... | |
| William Brighty Rands - 1865 - 380 pages
...the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone. The islands feel the...enclasping flow, And then their endless bounds they know. .... A God, a God their severance ruled ; And bade betwixt their shores to be The unplumb'd, salt,... | |
| William Brighty Rands - 1865 - 394 pages
...the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone. The islands feel the...enclasping flow, And then their endless bounds they know. .... A God, a God their severance ruled ; And bade betwixt their shores to be The unplumb'd, salt,... | |
| 1865 - 652 pages
...the sea of life enisl'd, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless waters wild, We mortal millions live alone. The islands feel the...enclasping flow, And then their endless bounds they know." It is another and more delicate version of Jean Inflow's " Divided." No one could have written either... | |
| 1899 - 978 pages
...the sea of life enisled. With echoing straits between us thrown. Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone. The islands feel the...longing like despair Is to their farthest caverns sent. In these lines one of the truest elegiac poets has touched the very heart of the mystery ; for the... | |
| Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1878 - 578 pages
...the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone. The islands feel the...flow, And then their endless bounds they know.' But does it not leave the impression that to the poet the soul's instinctive longing for solitude was the... | |
| William Davenport Adams - 1878 - 462 pages
...the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone. The islands feel the...endless bounds they know. But when the moon their billows lights, And they are swept by balms of spring, And in their glens, on starry nights, The nightingales... | |
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