 Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as...  The English Poets - Page 740edited by - 1894Full view - About this book
 | Percy Adams Hutchinson - 1912 - 572 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.... | |
 | 1898 - 1032 pages
...drifting helplessly at the mercy of wind and tide — as when in " Dover Beach " he sings : 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.... | |
 | Edward Richard Russell, Sir Edward Richard Russell - 1912 - 332 pages
...mirrored than in the following never-to-be-forgotten lines which conclude Dover Beach : — 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 fight, Where ignorant armies clash by night... | |
 | William Westley Guth - 1912 - 280 pages
...expected and none is found." 9 His Dover Beach surely places him "among the skeptic or agnostic poets." "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."... | |
 | Frederick Monroe Tisdel - 1913 - 392 pages
...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...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."... | |
 | Anne Ferry - 2001 - 318 pages
...Our sweetness up into one ball" — is too troubled, doubtful, frightened to be sustained: 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.... | |
 | Flora Miller Biddle - 2001 - 464 pages
...to it? Please, say yes. In conclusion, I read the last part of Matthew Arnold's Dover Beach:. .... 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.... | |
 | C. Christian Beels - 2001 - 308 pages
...do it — a lifelong appenticeship of many stages. CHAPTER SEVEN Marriage and lts Therapy 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 E. Scott - 2002 - 214 pages
...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...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.... | |
 | Astrid Diener - 2002 - 238 pages
...incomprehensible and essentially hostile universe, where human love and ideals seem powerless: 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.... | |
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