Ms.+Baynes's+Favorite+Poem

Duxbury - Dayanand Collaboration

Poetry From Duxbury to Dayanand

Dover Beach Matthew Arnold


 * The sea is calm tonight. **
 *  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. **
 *  Come to the window, sweet is the night-air! **
 *  Only, from the long line of spray **
 *  Where the sea meets the moon-blanched land, **
 *  Listen! you hear the grating roar **
 *  Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling, **
 *  At their return, up the high strand, **
 *  Begin, and cease, and then again begin, **
 *  With tremulous cadence slow, and bring **
 *  The eternal note of sadness in. **


 *  Sophocles long ago **
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 90%; text-align: center;"> Heard it on the Ægean, and it brought **
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 90%; text-align: center;"> Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow **
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 90%; text-align: center;"> Of human misery; we **
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 90%; text-align: center;"> Find also in the sound a thought, **
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 90%; text-align: center;"> Hearing it by this distant northern sea. **


 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 90%; text-align: center;"> The Sea of Faith **
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 90%; text-align: center;"> Was once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore **
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 90%; text-align: center;"> Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. **
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 90%; text-align: center;"> But now I only hear **
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 90%; text-align: center;"> Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, **
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 90%; text-align: center;"> Retreating, to the breath **
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 90%; text-align: center;"> Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear **
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 90%; text-align: center;"> And naked shingles of the world. **


 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 90%; text-align: center;"> Ah, love, let us be true **
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 90%; text-align: center;"> To one another! for the world, which seems **
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 90%; text-align: center;"> To lie before us like a land of dreams, **
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 90%; text-align: center;"> So various, so beautiful, so new, **
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 90%; text-align: center;"> Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, **
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 90%; text-align: center;"> Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; **
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 90%; text-align: center;"> And we are here as on a darkling plain **
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 90%; text-align: center;"> Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, **
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 90%; text-align: center;"> Where ignorant armies clash by night. **