Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as... The Life and Literature of the Ancient Hebrews - Page 262by Lyman Abbott - 1901 - 408 pagesFull view - About this book
| American essays - 1905 - 880 pages
...land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, BO new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain ; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.... | |
| 1894 - 284 pages
...love ; and what is this but the thought of Arnold in the following : — " Ah, love, let us be true to one another! for the world which seems To lie before...peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight Where ignorant armies clash by night."... | |
| 1882 - 972 pages
...of want and misery, and, in the mournful words of Matthew Arnold, are ready to declare that . . . " the world which seems To lie before us like a land...Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain ;" and one can feel nothing of . . . " that blessed mood In which the burden of the mystery, In which the... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1867 - 226 pages
...the night-wind down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world. Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie...peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.... | |
| 1868 - 986 pages
...the night wind down tho vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world. " Ah, love, let us be true To one another ; for the world, which seems To lie...peace, nor help for pain ; And we are here, as on a darkling plain, Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night."... | |
| 1869 - 898 pages
...the night-winds down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world. Ah, love, let us be true To one another ! for the world, which seems To lie...peace, nor help for pain ; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1869 - 286 pages
...the night-wind down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world. Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie...peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and fight, Where ignorant armies clash by night!... | |
| Anthologies - 1872 - 590 pages
...the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world. " Ah, love, let us be true To one another ! — for the world which seems To...Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain ; And here we are as on a darkling plain, Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant... | |
| Martha Le Baron Goddard - Sea poetry - 1874 - 382 pages
...roar, Retreating to the breath Of the night wind down the vast edges drear Ah, love, let us be true To one another ! for the world which seems To lie...peace, nor help for pain ; And we are here as on a darkling plain, Swept with confused alarms of struggle and fight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.... | |
| 1915 - 826 pages
...land of dreams So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain ; And we are here, as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and fight Where ignorant arms clash by night... | |
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