 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
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1894 - 178 pages
...round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd ! But now I only hear VOL. 1v. 3 B Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating,...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.... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1894 - 862 pages
...melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges d;car And naked shingles of the world. Ah, love, let us...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.... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1894 - 862 pages
...melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges duar And naked shingles of the world. Ah, love, let us...peace, nor help for pain ; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, XVhere ignorant armies clash by night.... | |
 | 1894 - 260 pages
...breath that fleets beyond this iron world, And touches Him that made it. ALFRED TENNYSON AH, Love ! let us be true To one another ; for the world, which...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.... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1895 - 388 pages
...I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night- winds, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the...peace, nor help for pain ; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with conf us'd alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1895 - 540 pages
...withdrawing_roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear Ah, love, let us be true To one another ! for the world, which...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.... | |
 | Charles William Eliot - 1895 - 44 pages
..." of the sea upon the moonlit beach at Dover ; and these are his dismal words to her : " Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which...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."... | |
 | Hugh Walker - 1895 - 352 pages
...feeling rather than in knowledge. When we seek to understand we are driven to the verge of despair :— The world, which seems To lie before us like a land...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... | |
 | Hugh Walker - 1895 - 352 pages
...feeling rather than in knowledge. When we seek to understand we are driven to the verge of despair:— The world, which seems To lie before us like a land...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... | |
 | 1896 - 532 pages
...cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. Sophocles long ago Heard it on the vEgaean, 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... | |
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