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" 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 185
by Matthew Arnold - 1878 - 370 pages
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The Christian remembrancer; or, The Churchman's Biblical ..., Volume 27

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...
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The Dublin university magazine

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...
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University Magazine: A Literary and Philosophic Review, Volume 45

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...
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Poems and Essays, Volume 2

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,...
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Controversial letters

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,...
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Controversial letters

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,...
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The Congregational Review, Volume 5

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...
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New Outlook, Volume 62

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...
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The Church Quarterly Review, Volume 6

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...
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Latter-day Lyrics: Being Poems of Sentiment and Reflection by Living Writers

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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