 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.  The Sunday at Home - Page 3921894Full view - About this book
 | Matthew Arnold - 1868 - 264 pages
...ebb meets the moon-blanch'd sand, Listen! you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which the waves draw 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 ^Egaean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of... | |
 | 1869 - 898 pages
...from the line of spray 668 The Poetry of the Tear. €69 Where the ebb meets the moon-blanch'd sand, Listen ! you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which...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... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1869 - 286 pages
...ebb meets the moon-blanch'd sand, Listen! you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which the waves draw 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 •iEgamn, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow... | |
 | Natural history - 1869 - 488 pages
...cold northern sky. A walk on deck, listening to " The grating roar Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling, At their return, up the high strand,...cease, and then again begin, With tremulous cadence sluw, and bring The eternal note of sadness in.'' and then to bed, rolled up in blankets on the couches... | |
 | Augusta Jane Evans - 1876 - 492 pages
...was her habit, the lines that chanced to present themselves, — "Listen! you hear the solemn roar Begin, and cease, and then again begin, With tremulous...cadence, slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. Sophocles, long ago, Heard it on the ^gean, and it brought Into bis mind the turbid ebb and flow Of... | |
 | Augusta Jane Evans - 1869 - 490 pages
...was her habit, the lines that chanced to present themselves, — "Listen ! you hear the solemn roar Begin, and cease, and then again begin, With tremulous cadence, slow, and bring The eternal note of Badness in. Sophocles, long ago, Heard it on the .dDgean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb... | |
 | Alexander MacLeod - Church and social problems - 1870 - 328 pages
...spiritual condition of the world at present. The poet is standing on Dover beach at night, and hears " The grating roar Of pebbles which the waves suck back...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... | |
 | 1870 - 590 pages
...The 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...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... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - Anthologies - 1872 - 594 pages
...sweet is the night air ! Only from the long line of spray, Where the ebb meets the moon-blanched sand, Listen ! — you hear the grating roar Of pebbles...cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. " Sophocles long ago Heard it on the ^îgean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow... | |
 | Humanities - 1872 - 1176 pages
...ebb meets the moon-blanched sand. Listen ! — you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which the wares suck back, and fling At their return, up the high...cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. I "Sophocles long ago Heard it on the /Kgean, and it brought Into his mind the tut bill ebb and flow... | |
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