| 1901 - 872 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 - 986 pagina’s
...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... | |
| Alexander MacLeod - 1870 - 344 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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... | |
| 1882 - 966 pagina’s
...be born, With nowhere yet to rest my head." or, again : "... 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... | |
| Martha Le Baron Goddard - 1874 - 382 pagina’s
...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... | |
| Samuel McAll - 1875 - 144 pagina’s
...twenty years." A great, but melancholy comparison truly ! " 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 1 only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating to the breath Of the... | |
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