 Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.  Poems and Essays - Page 47by William Caldwell Roscoe - 1860Full view - About this book
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1853 - 298 pages
...ever, Are spread and upfurl'd ; In the stir of the forces Whence issued the world. V. TO MARGUERITE. YES : in the sea of life enisl'd, With echoing straits...islands feel the enclasping flow, And then their endless hounds they know. But when the moon their hollows lights And they are swept by balms of spring, And... | |
 | 1854 - 544 pages
...instance, is one of the sweetest in Mr. Arnold's whole volume : — ' Yes ! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the...We mortal millions live alone. The islands feel the enclaspiug flow, And then their endless bounds they know. ' But when the moon their hollows lights,... | |
 | Ireland - 1855 - 804 pages
...ЛУvtller, p. 78. " ТО KABODCRIT«. ' " Y«. In the к« of life enlsl'd, With echoing straits between ui thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal...live alone: The islands feel the enclasping flow. And tlitn their endless bounds they know. 44 But when the moon their hollows lights, And they ore swept... | |
 | University magazine - 1855 - 784 pages
...mulberries for mortals — The Strayed Keveller, p. 78. 544 545 " TO UAHOCRRITK. " Ye«. In the ка of life enisl'd, With echoing straits between us thrown,...Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions I've alone: The islands fi-el the enclasping flow, And then their endleM bound! they know. " But when... | |
 | William Brighty Rands - 1865 - 380 pages
...had the same emotion, and beautifully have you rendered it : — " Yes, in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the...enclasping flow, And then their endless bounds they know. .... A God, a God their severance ruled ; And bade betwixt their shores to be The unplumb'd, salt,... | |
 | William Brighty Rands - 1865 - 394 pages
...had the same emotion, and beautifully have you rendered it : — " Yes, in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the...enclasping flow, And then their endless bounds they know. .... A God, a God their severance ruled ; And bade betwixt their shores to be The unplumb'd, salt,... | |
 | Congregationalism - 1865 - 654 pages
...stanzas " To Margurette." They strike a tone which echoes down into the lowest depths of the spirit. " Yes : in the sea of life enisl'd, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless waters wild, We mortal millions live alone. The islands feel the enclasping flow, And then their endless... | |
 | Robert William Dale, James Guinness Rogers - Congregational churches - 1879 - 1092 pages
...once isolated. Mr. Matthew Arnold remarks of the world at large — We iu this sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We countless millions live alone. The islands feel the encircling flow, And then their endless bounds... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - Religion - 1878 - 578 pages
...partial truth, and is expressed in almost perfect language :— ' Yes ! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the...flow, And then their endless bounds they know.' But does it not leave the impression that to the poet the soul's instinctive longing for solitude was the... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - English poetry - 1878 - 462 pages
...so far Doth near its fellows seem to be. JEAN INGELOW. CXI. ISOLATION. ! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the...endless bounds they know. But when the moon their billows lights, And they are swept by balms of spring, And in their glens, on starry nights, The nightingales... | |
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