 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 English Poets - Pagina 73a cura di - 1918Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | 1891 - 806 pagine
...from the long line of spray Where the sea meets the moon-blanched sand, Listen ! you hear the prating roar Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling,...of sadness in. Sophocles long ago Heard it on the ^igean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of human misery ; we Find also in the... | |
 | Grace Townsend - 1891 - 570 pagine
...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. — Matthew Arnold. Gulf Weed. AWEARY weed, tossed to and fro, Drearily drenched in the ocean brine,... | |
 | 1913 - 530 pagine
...last ripens into peace is the constant burden of Arnold's verse. Everyone knows his "Dover Beach" : "Listen! you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which...cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. • ••••••• The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay... | |
 | 1914 - 552 pagine
...are born to do great deeds and live, As some are born to be obscured and die." (Sohrob and Rustum). "Listen ! you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which the waves draw back and flung At their return, up the high strand, Begin, and cease, and then again begin, With tremulous cadence... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1894 - 862 pagine
...window, 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 Of pebbles...of sadness in. Sophocles long ago Heard it on the Aegaean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of human misery ; we Find also in the... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1894 - 860 pagine
...window, 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 Of pebbles...of sadness in, Sophocles long ago Heard it on the Aegacan, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of human misery ; we Find also in the... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1894 - 862 pagine
...window, sweet is the night-air! Only, from the long line of spniy Where the sea meets the moon-blanch'd land, Listen ! you hear the grating roar Of pebbles...of sadness in. Sophocles long ago Heard it on the Aegaean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of human misery; we Find also in the... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1894 - 178 pagine
...window, 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 Of pebbles...of sadness in. Sophocles long ago Heard it on the Aegaean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of human misery ; we Find also in the... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1895 - 540 pagine
...of spray • Where the sea meets the moon-blanch'd land, ~ Listen ! you hear the grating roar .fj. Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling, \...of sadness in. Sophocles long ago Heard it on the ALgse&n, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of human misery ; we Find also in the... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1895 - 388 pagine
...the long line of spray Where the sea meets the moon-blanch'd sand, Listen ! you hear the grating roar At their return, up the high strand, Begin, and cease,...of sadness in. Sophocles long ago Heard it on the ^Egsean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of human misery ; we Find abo in the... | |
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