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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. "
Poems: Lyric, dramatic, and elegiac poems - Page 17
by Matthew Arnold - 1881
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The Christian remembrancer; or, The Churchman's Biblical ..., Volume 27

1854 - 544 pages
...following little poem, for instance, is one of the sweetest in Mr. Arnold's whole volume : — ' Yes ! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between...We mortal millions live alone. The islands feel the enclaspiug flow, And then their endless bounds they know. ' But when the moon their hollows lights,...
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University Magazine: A Literary and Philosophic Review, Volume 45

1855 - 804 pages
...ЛУvtller, p. 78. " ТО KABODCRIT«. ' " Y«. In the к« of life enlsl'd, With echoing straits between ui thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal...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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The Dublin university magazine

University magazine - 1855 - 784 pages
...mortals — The Strayed Keveller, p. 78. 544 545 " TO UAHOCRRITK. " Ye«. In the ка of life enisl'd, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions I've alone: The islands fi-el the enclasping flow, And then their endleM bound! they know. " But when...
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Controversial letters

William Brighty Rands - 1865 - 382 pages
...else they differ. You, too, have had the same emotion, and beautifully have you rendered it:— " Yes, in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between...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, estranging...
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Controversial letters

William Brighty Rands - 1865 - 394 pages
...they differ. You, too, have had the same emotion, and beautifully have you rendered it : — " Yes, in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between...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
...: in 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...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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The Congregationalist, Volume 8

Robert William Dale, James Guinness Rogers - 1879 - 1092 pages
...: the case can be at once isolated. Mr. Matthew Arnold remarks of the world at large — We iu this sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We countless millions live alone. The islands feel the encircling flow, And then their endless bounds...
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The Church Quarterly Review, Volume 6

Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1878 - 578 pages
...justification is a deep though partial truth, and is expressed in almost perfect language :— ' Yes ! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between...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
...see, Only because from us so far Doth near its fellows seem to be. JEAN INGELOW. CXI. ISOLATION. ! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between...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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Latter-day lyrics, selected, with notes, by W.D. Adams

William Davenport Adams - 1878 - 416 pages
...we see, Only because from us so far Doth near its fellows seem to be. JEAN INGELOW. ISOLATION, ES ! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between...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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