 Listen! you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling, At their return, up the high strand, Begin, and cease, and then again begin, With tremulous cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in.  Wisconsin Journal of Education - Page 3681888Full view - About this book
 | 1894 - 868 pages
...So another poet describee it, " Listen ! You hear the grating roar Of pebbles, which the waves suck back, and fling, At their return, up the high strand,...cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. t-'ophocles, long ago, Heard it on the Jïgean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1867 - 226 pages
...ebb meets the moon-blanched sand, Listen ! you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which the waves suck back, and fling, At their return, up the high strand,...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 Of... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1868 - 264 pages
...sweet is the night air ! Only, from the long line of spray Where the ebb meets the moon-blanch'd sand, Listen! you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which...cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. Sophocles long ago Heard it on the ^Egaean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1869 - 286 pages
...sweet is the night air! Only, from the long line of spray Where the ebb meets the moon-blanch'd sand, Listen! you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which...cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. Sophocles long ago Heard it on the •iEgamn, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow... | |
 | 1869 - 488 pages
...night, each little star glittering with frost in the cold northern sky. A walk on deck, listening to " The grating roar Of pebbles which the waves draw back,...cease, and then again begin, With tremulous cadence sluw, and bring The eternal note of sadness in.'' and then to bed, rolled up in blankets on the couches... | |
 | 1869 - 898 pages
...ebb meets the moon-blanch'd sand, Listen ! you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which the waves suck back, and fling, At their return, up the high strand,...cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. Sophocles long ago Hoard it on the JEgean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of... | |
 | Augusta Jane Evans - 1876 - 492 pages
...was her habit, the lines that chanced to present themselves, — "Listen! you hear the solemn roar Begin, and cease, and then again begin, With tremulous...cadence, slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. Sophocles, long ago, Heard it on the ^gean, and it brought Into bis mind the turbid ebb and flow Of... | |
 | Augusta Jane Evans - 1869 - 490 pages
...was her habit, the lines that chanced to present themselves, — "Listen ! you hear the solemn roar Begin, and cease, and then again begin, With tremulous cadence, slow, and bring The eternal note of Badness in. Sophocles, long ago, Heard it on the .dDgean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb... | |
 | 1870 - 590 pages
...poet is standing on Dover beach at night, and hears ' The grating roar Of pebbles which the wares suck back and fling, At their return, up the high strand...cadence slow, and 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... | |
 | Alexander MacLeod - 1870 - 344 pages
...poet is standing on Dover beach at night, and hears " The grating roar Of pebbles which the waves suck back and fling, At their return, up the high strand...cadence slow, and 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... | |
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