Explore "Calais Sands" by Matthew Arnold on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
A thousand knights have rein'd their steeds / To watch this line of sand-hills run, / Along the never-silent Strait, / To Calais glittering in the sun: / To look toward Ardres' Golden Field / Across this wide aerial plain, / Which glows as if the Middle Age / Were gorgeous upon earth again.
Oh, that to share this famous scene / I saw, upon the open sand, / Thy lovely presence at my side, / Thy shawl, thy look, thy smile, thy hand!