 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...  The Nature and Elements of Poetry - 297 psl.autoriai: Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1892 - 338 psl.Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | 1901 - 872 psl.
...one thing worthy to be talked about. Matthew Arnold, in his most unman poem cried: 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— There is no but in the domestic novel, nor even the 6«f sense, the vague, troubled apprehension of... | |
 | Robert Hall Baynes - 1880 - 674 psl.
...And on his grave, with shining eyes, The Syrian stars look down. Elsewhere we read : 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 J Bat now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating to the breath Of the night... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1867 - 226 psl.
...misery; we Find also in the sound a thought, Hearing it by this distant northern sea. 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... | |
 | 1868 - 1078 psl.
...kingdom come," there is far other hope. And what of Mr. Arnold's despair for the world ? The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore...vast edges drear, And naked shingles of the world. A picture sad enough, if true ; but is it true ? Whatever be the faults of our age — and we do not... | |
 | 1868 - 986 psl.
...Writing on Dover Beach, and naturally meditating on tho sea, he thus mourns : — " 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... | |
 | 1869 - 898 psl.
...misery ; we Find also in the sound a thought, Hearing it by this distant northern sea. The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore...I only hear Its melancholy, long withdrawing roar Betreating to the breath Of the night-winds down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.... | |
 | Alexander MacLeod - 1870 - 328 psl.
...note of sadness in." And in that he hears a type of departing faith, for he adds : " 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... | |
 | 1870 - 590 psl.
...note of sadness in.' And in that he hears a type of departing faith, for he adds : ' 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, Ketreating to the breath Of the... | |
 | Octavius Brooks Frothingham - 1871 - 690 psl.
...celestial oil no longer consents to burn even in the temple lamps. The sea of taith Which once was at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled, Now only Itts us hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating to the breath Of the... | |
 | 1872 - 1176 psl.
...too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle fuiled ; But now 1 only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,...naked shingles of the world. " Ah, love, let us be (me To one another ! — for the world which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various,... | |
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