 | 1901 - 872 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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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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... 
