 | 1868 - 1078 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1869 - 286 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Alexander MacLeod - 1870 - 344 pages
...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 edges drear, And naked shingles of the world." In words like these there is no light for the blind—... | |
 | 1872 - 1176 pages
...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, Retreating to...vast edges drear And 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... | |
 | 1882 - 966 pages
...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,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - 290 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - 294 pages
...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...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... | |
 | James Brown - 1878 - 258 pages
...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...vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world. If Mr. Arnold's poetical theory be true, when speaking of Heine, he tells us that all genius is but... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - 1878 - 462 pages
...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...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... | |
 | James Brown Selkirk - 1878 - 256 pages
...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...vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world. If Mr. Arnold's poetical theory be true, when speaking of Heine, he tells us that all genius is but... | |
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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. 
