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" To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for... "
Time to Begin Anew: Dryden's Georgics and Aeneis - Page 129
by Tanya Caldwell - 2000 - 263 pages
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New Poems

Matthew Arnold - 1867 - 226 pages
...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...vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world. Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of...
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The Churchman's shilling magazine and family treasury, conducted ..., Volume 27

Robert Hall Baynes - 1880 - 674 pages
...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 wind down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world. To be sure, Mr. Arnold has a...
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The Free Churchman and Christian Spectator, Volume 1

Theology - 1868 - 1078 pages
...Crucified, "Thy 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...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...
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The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and advocate

1868 - 986 pages
...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 tho vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world. " Ah, love, let us be true To...
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Narrative and elegiac poems

Matthew Arnold - 1869 - 286 pages
...flow Of human 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...vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world. Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of...
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Christus Consolator: The Pulpit in Relation to Social Life

Alexander MacLeod - Church and social problems - 1870 - 328 pages
...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...Retreating to the breath Of the night-wind down the edges drear, And naked shingles of the world." In words like these there is no light for the blind...
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Sermons, Volume 1

Octavius Brooks Frothingham - Sermons - 1871 - 690 pages
...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 night wind down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world. In the business world, repeated...
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The Canadian Monthly and National Review, Volume 1

Anthologies - 1872 - 590 pages
...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,...vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world. " Ah, love, let us be true To one another ! — for the world which seems To lie before us like a land...
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The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 22

Science - 1882 - 966 pages
...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 shingles of the world." Meanwhile, as the old faith began to lose power,...
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The Canadian Monthly and National Review, Volume 1

Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - Anthologies - 1872 - 594 pages
...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 shingles of the world. " Ah, love, let us be true...
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