Sohrab and Rustum Author:Matthew Arnold Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PHILOMELA Hark 1 ah, the nightingale — The tawny-throated! Hark, from that moonlit cedar what a burst I What triumph I hark 1 — what pain 1 O wand... more »erer from a Grecian shore, $ Still, after many years, in distant lands, Still nourishing in thy bewildered brain That wild, unquenched, deep-sunken, old-world pain — Say, will it never heal ? And can this fragrant lawn 10 With its cool trees, and night, And the sweet, tranquil Thames, And moonshine, and the dew, To thy racked heart and brain Afford no balm ? 15 Dost thou to-night behold, Here, through the moonlight on this English grass, The unfriendly palace in the Thracian wild ? Dost thou again peruse With hot cheeks and seared eyes 20 The too clear web, and thy dumb sister's shame ? Dost thou once more assay Thy flight, and feel come over thee, Poor fugitive, the feathery change Once more, and once more seem to make resound 25 With love and hate, triumph and agony ? Lone Daulis, and the high Cephissian vale ? 5. See any classical dictionary under Philomela. Listen, Eugenia, — How thick the bursts come crowding through the leaves I Again — thou hearest ? Eternal passion 1 Eternal pain I 5 DOVER BEACH The sea is calm to-night. 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. 10 Come to the window, sweet is the night-air I 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, 15 At their return, up the high strand, Begin and cease, and then again begin, With trem...« less