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... Matthew Arnold - Page 101by Herbert Woodfield Paul - 1902 - 188 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
...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 us, like a...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... | |
| 1868 - 986 pages
...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 before us like a...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
...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 before us like a...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!... | |
| 1869 - 898 pages
...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 before us like a...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.... | |
| Humanities - 1872 - 1176 pages
...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 lie before us like a...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
...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 before us like a...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... | |
| Arthur Cayley Headlam - Religion - 1895 - 588 pages
...conviction falls upon our ears, it has far other sound : — ' Ah love, let us be true To one another, for the world which seems To lie before us like a...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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