 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
 | May Hunt - 1898 - 460 pages
...Arnold's noblest and most original figuro derived from the sea occurs in the well-known lines beginning, "The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and...earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd." Dover Beach Chapter V. Rossetti. As far as quantity is concerned the sea plays a small r£le... | |
 | 1907 - 762 pages
...grandeur of the man, who though God shall disappear, will yet remain, true to himself and to his friend: 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. Rut now I only henr It's melancholy, long withdrawing roar, Retreating to the breath Of the... | |
 | 1899 - 788 pages
...brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of human misery; we Find also in the sound a thought, 20 Hearing it by this distant northern sea. The sea of...earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd. But now I only hear 25 Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of... | |
 | William De Witt Hyde - 1900 - 42 pages
..." Sophocles long ago Heard it on the JSgaean, 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... | |
 | Catholic University of America - 1900 - 592 pages
...consumed his life in teaching similar things. How regretfully this poet of agnosticism reminds us that " 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 Sou Ita melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Repeating, to the breath Of... | |
 | Fannie Rose Walbridge - 1900 - 242 pages
...to this doubt and unbelief. Listen to the shuddering sound of his lines taken froi'i "Dover Beach:" "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... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1901 - 388 pages
...in. Sophocles long ago Heard it on the .(Egaean, 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... | |
 | 1901 - 544 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. 6 The italics are mine, 7 Poems, p. 282. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,... | |
 | Arnold Bennett - 1901 - 282 pages
...struck the half-hour, 'while the footmen lucre carrying in the last lamp and dropping the last curtain. 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 no-ur I only hear Its melancholy, long, voithdraiuing roar, Retreating to the breath .... | |
 | Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - 1902 - 598 pages
...in. Sophocles long ago Heard it on the JEgean, 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... | |
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