 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
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1888 - 916 psl.
...still unread. We think of him on Dover beach, hearing in imagination from " the sea of faith"— " y 5 _.z[J J/ |p N Ϯj : ! | 1 ~%_ '7 | M K -?J ڝ( < Ѷ! 8 ]} . j' We think of his desire to see before his dying eyes — " Bathed in the sacred dews of morn, The wide... | |
 | Daniel Dorchester - 1888 - 874 psl.
...Evening Post, 1879. Full of significance are also these lines of Matthew Arnold : 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... | |
 | Edward Berdoe - 1891 - 210 psl.
...sooner or later be realised in fact. In the beautiful words of Matthew Arnold : — 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... | |
 | 1891 - 806 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 light girdle furled. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating to the... | |
 | Edward Berdoe - 1891 - 212 psl.
...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 edge's drear And naked shingles of the world. " Go into a London club, listen... | |
 | 1892 - 960 psl.
...Northern sea, lie feels that he is standing also on the marge of the Sea of Faith, and that it is his to hear — " Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,...vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world." But the sound, instead of relaxing his emotional energies, stings them into passionate activity : —... | |
 | William James Dawson - 1892 - 248 psl.
...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...vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world." Regret is a still sad music, whose key-note is plaintiveness; but the predominating quality in Thomson's... | |
 | William James Dawson - 1892 - 300 psl.
...very calmness of its hopelessness, is almost wanting. Thomson does not tell us how " 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... | |
 | 1901 - 560 psl.
...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. °The italics are mine. 7 Poems, p. 282. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing... | |
 | Anna Swanwick - 1892 - 412 psl.
...the age, he has also given poetical expression, in the following pathetic lines : " 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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