 | Anna Swanwick - 1892 - 412 pages
...saddest features of the age, he has also given poetical expression, in the following pathetic lines : " 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... | |
 | Edward Allen Tanner - 1892 - 450 pages
...the world's heart, and insures immortality. Listen to two representative voices from modern poetry: " 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... | |
 | Anna Swanwick - 1892 - 412 pages
...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 edge's drear And naked shingles of the world." In the striking poem entitled,... | |
 | 1913 - 530 pages
...begin, With tremulous cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. • ••••••• The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world." There is the mild but profound melancholy of what may be called the first stage of Arnold's spiritual... | |
 | Charles James Wood - 1893 - 356 pages
...of death, but of the immanent Life. If any one thinks that he hears the ebb of faith's ocean, — " Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating,...vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world," — let him not dream that love of truth, of righteousness, that self-control, all merely for their... | |
 | Charles James Wood - 1893 - 344 pages
...of death, but of the immanent Life. If any one thinks that he hears the ebb of faith's ocean,— " Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating,...vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world," — let him not dream that love of truth, of righteousness, that self-control, all merely for their... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1894 - 862 pages
...flow Of human misery ; we Find also in the sound a thought, Hearing it by this dis:ant northern sea. The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges duar And naked shingles of the world. Ah, love, let us be true To one another ! for the world, which... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1894 - 862 pages
...flow Of human misery; we Find also in the sound a thought, Hearing it by this distant northern sea. The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges d;car And naked shingles of the world. Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1894 - 178 pages
...flow Of human misery ; we Find also in the sound a thought, Hearing it by this distant northern sea. The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...folds of a bright girdle furl'd ! But now I only hear VOL. 1v. 3 B Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1894 - 860 pages
...flow Of human misery ; we Find also in the sound a thought, Hearing it by this dis.'ant northern sea. The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd ! But now 1 only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down... | |
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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. 
