 | William De Witt Hyde - Optimism - 1900 - 44 pages
...lines from this bewitching pessimist. The shortest and in some respects the best poem of this mood is "DOVER BEACH. " The sea is calm to-night. The tide...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 ! Only, from... | |
 | Rosaline Masson - English language - 1900 - 132 pages
...over the pathos of the police court, and gather the night-dew of the grave." From Matthew Arnold's Dover Beach: — " The sea is calm to-night ; The...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 1 Only, from... | |
 | William De Witt Hyde - Optimism - 1900 - 42 pages
...this bewitching pessimist. The shortest and in some respects the best poem of this mood is " DOVEE BEACH. " The sea is calm to-night. The tide is full,...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 ! Only, from... | |
 | John Burroughs - American poetry - 1901 - 388 pages
...no longings vain — When in the night we wake not with the rain. DOVER BEACH By Matthew Arnold IHE sea is calm to-night. The tide is full, the moon lies...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 ! Only, from... | |
 | Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - English poetry - 1902 - 598 pages
...sad life, and home, And all that Theban woe, and stray For ever through the glens, placid and dumb. DOVER BEACH The sea is calm to-night, The tide is...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 ! Only, from... | |
 | Sarah Louise Arnold, George Lyman Kittredge, John Hays Gardiner - English language - 1902 - 460 pages
...sonnet show you about the poet? SECTION 136. Read aloud the following extract from Matthew Arnold's " Dover Beach." The sea is calm to-night; The tide is...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 I Only from... | |
 | English language - 1902 - 462 pages
...sonnet show you about the poet? SECTION 136. Read aloud the following extract from Matthew Arnold's " Dover Beach." The sea is calm to-night ; The tide...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 ! Only from... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1903 - 378 pages
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 | Helen Josephine Robins - English language - 1903 - 340 pages
...followed a liveried slave or bondsman bearing the psalmbook and a stove for his mistresss feet 12. The sea is calm to-night The tide is full the moon...light Gleams and is gone the cliffs of England stand Glimmering and vast out in the tranquil bay 13. The road got into more barren heights by the midday... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley, Clement Calhoun Young - English poetry - 1904 - 772 pages
...wavering line, *'5 Stablish, continue our march, On, to the bound of the waste, On, to the City of God. DOVER BEACH THE sea is calm to-night. The tide is...Gleams and is gone ; the cliffs of England stand, Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay. 5 Come to the window, sweet is the night-air! Only, from... | |
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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. 
