{"id":33290,"date":"2016-09-27T06:30:33","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T17:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=33290"},"modified":"2016-09-26T22:41:15","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T09:41:15","slug":"tuesday-poetry-dover-beach-excerpt-by-matthew-arnold-1822-1888","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/09\/27\/tuesday-poetry-dover-beach-excerpt-by-matthew-arnold-1822-1888\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Poetry: Dover Beach (Excerpt) by Matthew Arnold, 1822 – 1888"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dover Beach<\/span><\/h3>\n

The sea is calm to-night,
\nThe tide is full, the moon lies fair
\nUpon the straits; \u2014 on the French coast the light
\nGleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,
\nGlimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.
\nCome to the window, sweet is the night-air!
\nOnly, from the long line of spray
\nWhere the sea meets the moon-blanch\u2019d land,
\nListen! you hear the grating roar
\nOf pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling,
\nAt their return, up the high strand,
\nBegin, and cease, and then again begin,
\nWith tremulous cadence slow, and bring
\nThe eternal note of sadness in.
\n…
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

— by<\/em> Matthew Arnold, 1822 – 1888<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

\"island-bay_boats\"<\/a>Yesterday I posted a poem of Wellington’s Island Bay, so I thought today’s poem had to about the sea as well.<\/p>\n

This is only the first stanza of a longer poem, but I think it captures the sense of the ocean and the ocean shore extremely well.<\/p>\n

To learn more about the poet, see this excellent biography from the Academy of American Poets:<\/p>\n

Matthew Arnold<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dover Beach The sea is calm to-night, The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits; \u2014 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-writers","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33290"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33293,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33290\/revisions\/33293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}