 And lovely notes, from shore to shore, Across the sounds and channels pour — Oh! then a longing like despair Is to their farthest caverns sent; For surely once, they feel, we were Parts of a single continent!  Sappho and Her Influence - Page 77by David Moore Robinson - 1924 - 272 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1853 - 298 pages
...Parts of a single continent. Now round us spreads the watery plain Oh might our marges meet again ! • Who order'd, that their longing's fire Should be,...their deep desire ? — A God, a God their severance rul'd ; And bade betwixt their shores to be The unplumb'd, salt, estranging sea. VI ABSENCE. IN this... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1856 - 348 pages
...Parts of a single continent. Now round us spreads the watery plain — Oh might our marges meet again ! Who order'd, that their longing's fire Should be,...their deep desire ? — A God, a God their severance rul'd ; And bade betwixt their shores to be The unplumb'd, salt, estranging sea. 10 • VI. ABSENCE.... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1858 - 350 pages
...of a single continent. Now round us spread the watery plain — Oh ! might our marges meet again ! Who order'd that their longing's fire Should be, as...shores to be The unplumb'd, salt, estranging sea. ELEGY ON WILLIAM COBBETT. By EBENEZER ELLIOTT. OH, bear him where the rain can fall, And where the... | |
 | William Caldwell Roscoe - Bookbinding - 1860 - 576 pages
...of a single continent. Now round us spreads the watery plain — Oh, might our marges meet again ! Who order'd that their longing's fire Should be, as...vain their deep desire ? A God, a God their severance rul'd ; And bade betwixt their shores to be The unplumb'd, salt, estranging sea." The main sentiment... | |
 | William Caldwell Roscoe - Bookbinding - 1860 - 546 pages
...God their severance rul'd ; And bade betwixt their shores to be The unplumb'd, salt, estranging sea." Who order'd that their longing's fire Should be, as soon as kindled, cool'd 1 Who renders vain their deep desire ? The main sentiment and the expression none will deny to possess... | |
 | William Brighty Rands - 1865 - 394 pages
...millions live alone. The islands feel the enclasping flow, And then their endless bounds they know. .... A God, a God their severance ruled ; And bade betwixt...shores to be The unplumb'd, salt, estranging sea." You will forgive me, I hope, for quoting those verses, and also these, for the comfort they contain... | |
 | William Brighty Rands - 1865 - 380 pages
...millions live alone. The islands feel the enclasping flow, And then their endless bounds they know. .... A God, a God their severance ruled ; And bade betwixt...shores to be The unplumb'd, salt, estranging sea." You will forgive me, I hope, for quoting those verses, and also these, for the comfort they contain... | |
 | William Alexander - 1867 - 228 pages
...what curiosa felicitas in these epithets of the sea, in the well-known lines to " Marguerite : " — And bade betwixt their shores to be The unplumb'd, salt, estranging sea. Once more : — On winter evenings, when the roar Of the near waves came, sadly grand, Tlirough the... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1865 - 534 pages
...marges meet again ! 1 Who ordered that their longing's fire Should be, as soon as kindled, cooled ? Who renders vain their deep desire ? A God, a God...severance ruled ; And bade betwixt their shores to be The im plumbed, salt, estranging sea.' We shall not delay to analyse ' Merope,' as great a failure, and... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1869 - 286 pages
...continent! Now round us spreads the watery plain— Oh might our marges meet again ! [BEAM. & LYE.] H Who order'd, that their longing's fire Should be,...shores to be The unplumb'd, salt, estranging sea. 8. The Terrace at Berne. (COMPOSED TEN YEARS AFTER THE PRECEDING.) '"PEN years!—and to my waking... | |
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