 | Matthew Arnold - 1867 - 226 páginas
...and bring The eternal note of sadness in. Sophocles long ago Heard it on the JEgean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of human misery;...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... | |
 | 1868 - 986 páginas
...name for despair. Writing on Dover Beach, and naturally meditating on tho sea, he thus mourns : — " 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... | |
 | Alexander MacLeod - 1870 - 328 páginas
...bring The eternal note of sadness in." And in that he hears a type of departing faith, for he adds : " 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... | |
 | 1870 - 590 páginas
...bring The eternal note of sadness in.' And in that he hears a type of departing faith, for he adds : ' 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, Ketreating to the breath Of the... | |
 | Octavius Brooks Frothingham - 1871 - 690 páginas
...celestial oil no longer consents to burn even in the temple lamps. The sea of taith Which once was at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled, Now only Itts us hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating to the breath Of the... | |
 | 1872 - 590 páginas
...and bring The eternal note of sadness in. "Sophocles long ago Heard it on the /Egean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of human misery...earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled ; But now 1 only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating to the breath Of the... | |
 | 1872 - 1176 páginas
...sadness in. I "Sophocles long ago Heard it on the /Kgean, and it brought Into his mind the tut bill ebb and flow Of human misery ; we Find also in the...earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle fuiled ; But now 1 only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating to the breath Of the... | |
 | 1882 - 966 páginas
...worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born, With nowhere yet to rest my head." or, again : "... 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... | |
 | Samuel McAll - 1875 - 144 páginas
...been telling us, in vehement prose, for twenty years." A great, but melancholy comparison truly ! " The sea of faith was once, too, at the full ; and...earth's shore , Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled ; But now 1 only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating to the breath Of the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - 290 páginas
...and bring The eternal note of sadness in. Sophocles long ago Heard it on the JEge&n, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of human misery;...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... | |
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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 night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked... 
