 The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd. 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...  The Warner Library - Page 877edited by - 1917Full view - About this book
 | Matthew Arnold - 1889 - 258 pages
..._Sophocles long ago Heard it on the .iEgsean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of human misery ; we Find also in the sound a thought,...earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd. But now I only hear 'Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating to the breath Of the... | |
 | 1891 - 806 pages
...in. Sophocles long ago Heard it on the ^igean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of human misery ; we Find also in the sound a thought,...full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a light girdle furled. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating to the... | |
 | 1891 - 634 pages
...and pessimism. The son of the great Thomas Arnold of Rugby, for example, can drop so low as to say : "The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and...earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the... | |
 | 1901 - 560 pages
...believed, and frankly accepted the belief, that the faith of the Christian world is practically dead. The sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. °The italics are mine. 7 Poems, p. 282. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1892 - 372 pages
...the end seems to have led him to forego his career as a poet : "The sea of faith," he plains, — " Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the... | |
 | 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...earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1894 - 178 pages
...in. Sophocles long ago Heard it on the Aegaean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of human misery ; we Find also in the sound a thought,...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, to the... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1894 - 862 pages
...in. Sophocles long ago Heard it on the Aegaean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of human misery; we Find also in the sound a thought,...earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd ! But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1894 - 860 pages
...in, Sophocles long ago Heard it on the Aegacan, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and 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 earth's shore Lay like... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1894 - 862 pages
...in. Sophocles long ago Heard it on the Aegaean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and 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 earth's shore Lay like... | |
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