"The sea is calm to-night. The tide is full, the moon lies fair" in this 1867 Matthew Arnold Poem
The sea is calm to-night, The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straights; -- 
on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; ... by Matthew Arnold (1822 - 
1888), title 1: "Dover Beach", from New Poems, published 1867 [.