 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.  An Introduction to Poetry - Pagina 419de Jay Broadus Hubbell, John Owen Beaty - 1923 - 524 paginiVizualizare completă - Despre această carte
 | 1894 - 868 pagini
...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 pagini
...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,...of sadness in. Sophocles long ago Heard it on the JEgean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of human misery; we Find also in the sound... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1868 - 264 pagini
...sweet is the night air ! Only, from the long line of spray Where the ebb meets the moon-blanch'd sand, Listen! you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which...of sadness in. Sophocles long ago Heard it on the ^Egaean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of human misery; we Find also in the... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1869 - 286 pagini
...sweet is the night air! Only, from the long line of spray Where the ebb meets the moon-blanch'd sand, Listen! you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which...of sadness in. Sophocles long ago Heard it on the •iEgamn, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of human misery; we Find also in the... | |
 | 1869 - 898 pagini
...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,...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 human misery ; we Find... | |
 | 1869 - 488 pagini
...night, each little star glittering with frost in the cold northern sky. A walk on deck, listening to " The grating roar Of pebbles which the waves draw back,...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 pagini
...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...of sadness in. Sophocles, long ago, Heard it on the ^gean, and it brought Into bis mind the turbid ebb and flow Of human misery." CHAPTER XV. JJISS DEXTER,... | |
 | 1870 - 590 pagini
...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 - 1870 - 344 pagini
...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... | |
 | 1872 - 590 pagini
...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,...of sadness in. "Sophocles long ago Heard it on the /Egean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of human misery ; we Find also in the... | |
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