 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.  The Sea of Faith - Page 1by Milton Reed - 1908 - 111 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Electronic journals - 1913 - 530 pages
...begin, With tremulous cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. • ••••••• The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...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."... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1894 - 862 pages
...flow Of human misery ; we Find also in the sound a thought, Hearing it by this dis:ant northern sea. The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges duar And naked shingles of the world.... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1894 - 862 pages
...flow Of 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...only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges d;car And naked shingles of the world.... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1894 - 178 pages
...flow Of 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...folds of a bright girdle furl'd ! But now I only hear VOL. 1v. 3 B Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1894 - 860 pages
...flow Of human misery ; we Find also in the sound a thought, Hearing it by this dis.'ant northern sea. The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd ! But now 1 only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down... | |
 | Free Religious Association (Boston, Mass.). Meeting - Religion - 1894 - 906 pages
...tin' great human sea of history, wrote such words as these : "The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at its 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, Ketreating, to the breath Of the... | |
 | Hugh Walker - English poetry - 1895 - 352 pages
...unwelcome intellectual necessity. He has himself expressed its character in words of surpassing beauty:— The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...withdrawing roar, Eetreating, to the breath Of the night wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world (Dover Beach). It ought to be... | |
 | Hugh Walker - English poetry - 1895 - 352 pages
...unwelcome intellectual necessity. He has himself expressed its character in words of surpassing beauty:— The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shmgles of the world... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - English poetry - 1895 - 388 pages
...flow Of human misery ; we Find abo in the sound a thought, Hearing it by this distant northern sea. The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night- winds, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the... | |
 | Book collecting - 1925 - 914 pages
...destroyed, of a challenging of convention, there can be for them a slabUity in the midst of their chaos. The sea of faith Was once, too, at the 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... | |
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