 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
 | William De Witt Hyde - 1900 - 44 lapas
...cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. " Sophocles long ago Heard it on the jEgaean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow...only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Eetreating, to the breath Of the night wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.... | |
 | Catholic University of America - 1900 - 592 lapas
...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...folds of a bright girdle furl'd. But now I only hear Sou Ita melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Repeating, to the breath Of the night-winds, down the vast... | |
 | 1901 - 622 lapas
...The eternal note of sadness in. Sophocles long ago Heard it on the ^Egaean, and it brought Into hia mind the turbid ebb and flow Of human misery ; we...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... | |
 | 1901 - 544 lapas
...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...earth's 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... | |
 | Arnold Bennett - 1901 - 282 lapas
...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 .... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1902 - 850 lapas
...cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. Sophocles long ago Heard it on the Aegaean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow...shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd 1 But now I only hear VOL. iv. 3 B Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath... | |
 | Edith C. Rickards - 1902 - 474 lapas
...plume of Oxoniensis. The beautiful lines she chose as the motto for the book, indicate its scope : " 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 hreath Of the night... | |
 | Alban Bertram De Mille - 1902 - 546 lapas
...eternal note of sadness in. ... The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shores Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd. But...only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retrenting, to the breath Of the night-windg, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.... | |
 | 1903 - 1272 lapas
...late poems. Nowhere is the modem note of regret better expressed than in the second part, beginning: "The sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and...shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd." Such work as this will keep forever secure Arnold's place among the English poets. The book which has... | |
 | Thomas Bird Mosher - 1904 - 472 lapas
...cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. Sophocles long ago Heard it on the ^Egaean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow...only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world. Ah, love, let us be true... | |
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