 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...  The Writer - 45. lappuse1927Pilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | 1925 - 914 lapas
...destroyed, of a challenging of convention, there can be for them a slabUity in the midst of their chaos. 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... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1895 - 540 lapas
...flow Of human misery ; we Find also in the sound a thought, Hearing it by this distant northern sea. r The Sea. of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdleJurFd. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing_roar, Retreating, to the breath... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1896 - 244 lapas
...gradual breaking-away of the faith which had yielded life and stimulus to the generations of the past. " The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...folds of a bright girdle furl'd. But now I only hear 1 Pis- A Her. Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind,... | |
 | William Norman Guthrie - 1897 - 376 lapas
...and joy Lifting mankind " ni 1 1 give us contentment ever. Faith used to do this for us, but alas ! " The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...folds of a bright girdle furl'd. But now I only hear * Rossetti's Soothsay, St. 6. t Switzerland : 5 Isolation, p. 183-4. t The Buried Life, p. 282. Its... | |
 | Arthur Howard Galton - 1897 - 140 lapas
...the same ocean round us raves, But we stand mute, and watch the waves." or these from Dover Beach : " The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd ; 26 But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind,... | |
 | 1897 - 680 lapas
...In that wellknown poem " Dover Beach," he, too, makes the eternal sea re-echo his own despair :— 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... | |
 | 1907 - 762 lapas
...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...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 night wind,... | |
 | May Hunt - 1898 - 460 lapas
...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...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 in Rossetti... | |
 | 1899 - 788 lapas
...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...folds of a bright girdle furl'd. But now I only hear 25 Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast... | |
 | Theodore Whitefield Hunt - 1899 - 196 lapas
...for me. In "Dover Beach " he sings in the same despondent strain of a faith once his, but now lost : 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... | |
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