 | 1869 - 898 pages
...which gives expression to this complaint, is at once the finest and most despondent of these poems : DOVER BEACH. The sea is calm to-night, The tide is...the tranquil bay. Come to the window, sweet is the night air Only from the line of spray 668 The Poetry of the Tear. €69 Where the ebb meets the moon-blanch'd... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - English poetry - 1877 - 290 pages
...wild winds and unhearing tide, — The world his country, and his God his guide. William Lisle Bowles DOVER BEACH. THE sea is calm to-night, The tide is...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 which the waves suck... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - 294 pages
...unhearing tide, — The world his country, and his God his guide. DOVER BEACH. William Lisle Bowles THE sea is calm to-night, The tide is full, the moon...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 which the waves suck... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1879 - 392 pages
...shall attain. Ah I some power exists there, which is ours ? Some end is there, we indeed may gain? DOVER BEACH. THE sea is calm to-night. The tide is...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 their... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1882 - 396 pages
...shall attain. Ah ! some power exists there, which is ours ? Some end is there, we indeed may gain ? DOVER BEACH. THE sea is calm to-night. The tide is...tranquil bay. Come to the window, sweet is the night-air I Only, from the long line of spray Where the sea meets the moon-blanch'd sand, Listen ! you hear the... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1883 - 352 pages
...attain. Ah ! some power exists there, which is ours 1 Some end is there, we indeed may gain 1 DOVEE BEACH. THE sea is calm to-night. The tide is full,...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 their... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - American poetry - 1883 - 662 pages
...belong to the jovial crew On board the " Arethusa." PEtNCE HOAEE. DOVER BEACH. sea is calm to-night. A The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the Straits...from the long line of spray Where the sea meets the moon-blanched sand, Listen ! you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1885 - 280 pages
...attain. Ah ! some power exists there, which is ours 1 Some end is there, we indeed may gain 1 DOVEE BEACH. THE sea is calm to-night. The tide is full,...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 their... | |
 | American poetry - 1886 - 220 pages
...sweeps the new ; The wind will blow, the dawn will glow, Ere thou hast sailed them through." C. Kingsley DOVER BEACH. THE sea is calm to-night ; The tide is...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 which the waves suck... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - Poetry of places - 1887 - 390 pages
...loved one, But cruel is she ! She left lonely for ever The kings of the sea." MATTHEW ARNOLD. [From Dover Beach.] T^HE sea is calm to-night. The tide...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 their... | |
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The sea is calm to-night. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits;— on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay. Come to the window, sweet is the night-air!... 
