 | 1894 - 868 pages
...So another poet describee it, " Listen ! You hear the grating roar Of pebbles, which the waves suck back, and fling, At their return, up the high strand,...cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. t-'ophocles, long ago, Heard it on the Jïgean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1867 - 226 pages
...ebb meets the moon-blanched sand, Listen ! you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which the waves suck back, and fling, At their return, up the high strand,...cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. Sophocles long ago Heard it on the JEgean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1868 - 264 pages
...the long line of spray Where the ebb meets the moon-blanch'd sand, Listen! you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling, At...cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. Sophocles long ago Heard it on the ^Egaean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1869 - 286 pages
...the long line of spray Where the ebb meets the moon-blanch'd sand, Listen! you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling, At...cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. Sophocles long ago Heard it on the •iEgamn, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow... | |
 | 1869 - 898 pages
...ebb meets the moon-blanch'd sand, Listen ! you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which the waves suck back, and fling, At their return, up the high strand,...cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. Sophocles long ago Hoard it on the JEgean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of... | |
 | 1870 - 590 pages
...poet is standing on Dover beach at night, and hears ' The grating roar Of pebbles which the wares suck back and fling, At their return, up the high strand...cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in.' And in that he hears a type of departing faith, for he adds : ' The sea of faith Was once too at the... | |
 | Alexander MacLeod - Church and social problems - 1870 - 344 pages
...poet is standing on Dover beach at night, and hears " The grating roar Of pebbles which the waves suck back and fling, At their return, up the high strand...cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in." And in that he hears a type of departing faith, for he adds: " The sea of faith Was once too at the... | |
 | Anthologies - 1872 - 590 pages
...meets the moon-blanched sand, Listen ! — you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which the waves suck back, and fling At their return, up the high strand,...cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. "Sophocles long ago Heard it on the /Egean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of... | |
 | Martha Le Baron Goddard - Sea poetry - 1874 - 382 pages
...cease, and then again begin, With tremulous cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. Sophocles long ago Heard it on the ^Egean, and it...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 earth's... | |
 | Martha Le Baron Goddard - Sea poetry - 1874 - 248 pages
...ebb meets the moon-blanched sand, Listen ! you hear the grating roar Of pebbles, which the waves suck back and fling, At their return, up the high strand,...cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. Sophocles long ago Heard it on the ./Egean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of... | |
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Listen! you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling At their return, up the high strand, Begin, and cease, and then again begin, With tremulous cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. 
