 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 shingles of the world. Ah, love, let us be true To one another ! for the world, which seems To lie before us like...  An Introduction to Poetry - Page 419by Jay Broadus Hubbell, John Owen Beaty - 1922 - 524 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - 294 pages
...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...peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, k CHURCHILL'S GRAVE. I STOOD beside... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - 1878 - 418 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...peace, nor help for pain ; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarm of struggle and fight, Where ignorant armies clash by night!... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1878 - 396 pages
...cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. Sophocles long ago Heard it on the ./Egzean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow...peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, GROWING OLD. WHAT is it to grow old?... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - 1878 - 416 pages
...cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. Sophocles long ago Heard it on the yEgsean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow...peace, nor help for pain ; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarm of struggle and fight, Where ignorant armies clash by night... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - 1878 - 462 pages
...eternal note of sadness in. Sophocles long ago Heard it on the yEgaean, and it brought DOVER BEACH. 193 Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of human misery...peace, nor help for pain ; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarm of struggle and fight, Where ignorant armies clash by night... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1879 - 392 pages
...down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world. Ah, love, let us be true To one another 1 for the world, which seems To lie before us like a...peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 342 pages
...human misery; we Find also in the sound a thought, Hearing it by this distant northern sea. VOL. II. F The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1882 - 396 pages
...cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. Sophocles long ago Heard it on the J3gsean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow...peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1884 - 396 pages
...only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, clown the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world....peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1883 - 352 pages
...and bring The eternal note of sadness in. Sophocles long ago Heard it on the .^Egeean, and it brought Of human misery ; we Find also in the sound a thought,...peace, nor help for pain ; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.... | |
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