 The Sea of 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 roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked...  The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse - Page 370edited by - 1913 - 1023 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - 290 pages
...cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. Sophocles long ago Heard it on the JEge&n, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow...earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled; But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating to the breath Of the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - 294 pages
...tremulous cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. Sophocles long ago Heard it on the JEgam, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow...earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled; But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating to the breath Of the... | |
 | 1878 - 144 pages
...the unreturning past, a deep unrest in the present, and an almost hopeless turning toward the future. "The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and...earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. Hut now 1 only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1879 - 392 pages
...ago Heard it on the JEgaean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of human jnisery ; we Find also in the sound a thought, Hearing it by...full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a brigty girdle furl'd. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the... | |
 | James Willcox Alsop - 1879 - 40 pages
...stand mute and watch the waves." So, too, in the short but exquisite poem called " Dover Beach " :— " The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...of a bright girdle furl'd ; But now I only hear Its mcluucholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating to the breath Of the night-wind down the vast edges... | |
 | 1885 - 478 pages
...cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. Sophocles long ago Heard it in the ./Egean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow...human misery ; we Find also in the sound a thought, The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, around earth's shore — Lay like the folds of a bright... | |
 | John White Chadwick - 1879 - 368 pages
...it in a poem of incomparable sadness. After describing the full tide upon the Dover beach, he says: The sea of 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 roar, Retreating to the breath Of the... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 342 pages
...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...thought, Hearing it by this distant northern sea. VOL. II. F The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1883 - 662 pages
...cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. Sophocles long ago Heard it on the /Egean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow...earth's shore Lay, like the folds of a bright girdle, furled. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long withdrawing roar, Retreating to the breath Of the... | |
 | Andrew Martin Fairbairn - 1883 - 72 pages
...the calm sea, watches the full tide and the moon that " lies fair upon the Straits," and thinks, " The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle f url'd. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Betreating, to the breath Of the... | |
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