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" 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 World's Best Poetry ... - Page 210
1904
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The Tuftonian, Volume 21

1894 - 286 pages
...preacher has said, 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...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."...
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The Christian world magazine (and family visitor)., Volume 18

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...
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New Poems

Matthew Arnold - 1867 - 226 pages
...now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating to the breath Of the night-wind down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the...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....
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The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and advocate

1868 - 986 pages
...only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating to the breath Of the night wind down tho vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world....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."...
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Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Volume 80

1869 - 898 pages
...folds of a bright girdle furl'd ; But now I only hear Its melancholy, long withdrawing roar Betreating to the breath Of the night-winds down the vast edges...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....
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Narrative and elegiac poems

Matthew Arnold - 1869 - 286 pages
...now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating to the breath Of the night-wind down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the...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!...
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The Canadian Monthly and National Review, Volume 1

Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1872 - 594 pages
...now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating to the breath Of the night- wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the...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...
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The Canadian Monthly and National Review, Volume 1

1872 - 1176 pages
...the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world. " Ah, love, let us be (me 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...
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Sea and Shore: A Collection of Poems ...

Martha Le Baron Goddard - 1874 - 248 pages
...night wind down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world. AT BAY RIDGE, LI IOI Ah, love, let us be true To one another ! for the world which...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....
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Poems of Places: England and Wales

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - 290 pages
...now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating to the breath Of the night-wind down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the...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....
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