 YES! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone. The islands feel the enclasping flow, And then their endless bounds they know.  Poems - Page 185by Matthew Arnold - 1878 - 370 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Hamilton Wright Mabie - 1901 - 380 pages
...the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone. The islands feel the...longing like despair Is to their farthest caverns sent. In these lines one of the truest elegiac poets has touched the very heart of the mystery; for the sense... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1901 - 1190 pages
...sea of life enisled, .*. With echoing straits between us thrown. Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone, The islands feel the...shore to shore, Across the sounds and channels pour; O then a longing like despair Is to their farthest caverns sent ! For surely once, they feel, we were... | |
 | 1901 - 1002 pages
...the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone, The Islands feel the...then their endless bounds they know. But when the morn their hollows lights, And they are swept by balins of spring, And in their glens, on starry niglüs,... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1902 - 724 pages
...enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal myriads live alone. The islands feel the enclasping flow, And then their endless bounds they know. CHAPTER X. POSTHUMOUS. THE earliest tribute to the mind and character of Gray was published in 1772... | |
 | University of St. Andrews - 1903 - 762 pages
...the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone. The islands feel the...And they are swept by balms of spring, And in their gleus, on starry nights, The nightingales divinely sing ; And lovely notes, from shore to shore, Across... | |
 | Charles Larcom Graves - 1903 - 516 pages
...the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone. The islands feel the...the moon their hollows lights, And they are swept with balms of spring, And in their glens on starry nights The nightingales divinely sing ; And lovely... | |
 | John Erskine - 1903 - 374 pages
...the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone. The islands feel the...enclasping flow, And then their endless bounds they know." In the second and third stanzas the emotion is developed by a study of "enisled" souls under different... | |
 | Arthur Temple Lyttelton, Edward Stuart Talbot (bp. of Rochester) - 1904 - 370 pages
...the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone. The islands feel the...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... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - 1905 - 628 pages
...the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone. The islands feel the...longing like despair Is to their farthest caverns sent; F or surely once, they feel, we were Parts of a single continent! Now round us spreads the watery plain... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1905 - 274 pages
...The islands feel the enclasping flow, 5 And then their endless bounds they know. But when the moon0 their hollows lights, And they are swept by balms...glens, on starry nights, The nightingales divinely sing ; 10 Oh ! then a longing like despair Is to their farthest caverns sent ; For surely once, they feel,... | |
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