 | Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - English poetry - 1904 - 416 pages
...the long line of spray Where the sea meets the moon-blanch'd land, 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 /Egean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - American poetry - 1905 - 628 pages
...the long line of spray Where the sea 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 /Egcan, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - English literature - 1906 - 844 pages
...sweet is the night-air! Only, from the long line of spray Where the sea meets the moon-blanch'd land, Listen! you hear the grating roar 10 Of pebbles which...cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. IB Sophocles long ago Heard it on the .ZEgsean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow... | |
 | E. B. Greenshields, John Addington Symonds - Landscape painting - 1906 - 348 pages
...the long line of spray Where the sea meets the moon-blanch'd land, 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." "Thyrsis." "He hearkens not! light comer, he is flown! What matters it ? Next year he will return,... | |
 | William Roger Greeley - American poetry - 1906 - 224 pages
...the long line of spray Where the sea 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 in the JEgean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow of... | |
 | E. B. Greenshields - Landscape painting - 1906 - 354 pages
...the long line of spray Where the sea meets the moon-blanch'd land, 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." "Thyreis." "He hearkens not! light comer, he is flown ! What matters it ? Next year he will return,... | |
 | Otto Luitpold Jiriczek - English poetry - 1907 - 518 pages
...the long line of spray Where the sea meets the moon-blanch'd land, 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 ./Egasan, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - Literary Criticism - 1908 - 332 pages
...the long line of spray When the sea meets the moon-blanch'd laud, 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. This, as accurate as it is poetical, is finer but not - truer — with "its melancholy, long, withdrawing... | |
 | Europe - 1908 - 554 pages
...ebb meets the moon-bleached 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 JEgea.n, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of... | |
 | George Burman Foster - Religion - 1909 - 316 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 Aegean, 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. 
