...sertings of the words and vague suggestions of theit meanings as he builds to the impassioned ending. The sea is calm to-night, The tide is full, the moon lies fait Upon the straits; — on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England...

...It felt like an offering, a submission of her will to his. "Poetry. The first two and a bit lines of 'Dover Beach.' The sea is calm to-night. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits. It makes me feel calm and still." "Yes," Patrick said, and nodded. "And you?" Patrick hesitated, but...

...为例， 讨论英诗词曲体译法的具体技巧问题。 The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full,the moon lies fair Upon the straits; @ on the French coast...gone; the cliffs of England stand, Glimmering and vast,out in the tranquil bay. Come to the window,sweet is the night-air! Only,from the long line of...

...going. Personally I love it when it does. It's a mournful noise but somehow reassuring. EVAN. (Quoting.) The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair upon the straits — LOUISE. Wordsworth? EVAN. No. Matthew Arnold. LOUISE. I knew it was somebody. (She sniffs.) Isn't...

...钮iscal 爪to 而曲t · 秆etideis 血11 ， 山em 叨廿虹Q 仿计 杜义 Part One English Poetry 161 Upon the straits ' @on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England2 stand, Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay. Come to the window, sweet is the night...

...are still people of the planet, with all its original directions waiting in our being. — -John Hay The sea is calm to-night, The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits . . . For the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams. — Matthew Arnold We simply...

...confidence, attempting the seductive, varied tone of a storyteller entrancing a child, hegins again. "The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon...fair upon the straits — on the French coast the lighr gleams and is gone . . ." Henry missed first time the mention of the cliffs of England "glimmering...

..."Channels" may be a veiled reference to the English Channel, the implied backdrop to Arnold's poem ("On the French coast the light/ Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand"). But otherwise Auden's opening lines are much more optimistic than Arnold's; the poem, after all, takes...

...disclosed a great deal about operational techniques to Bill Donovan. One evening at Winchelsea, she quoted: The sea is calm to-night. The tide is full, the moon...light Gleams and is gone; The cliffs of England stand . . . The lines are from "Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold. Moonlight told Vera when operations were...

...originating from the same experience: watching the ocean at night. The mood of the first three lines — The sea is calm tonight The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon die straights.... is in sharp contrast to die mood of the last three lines — And we are here as on...