The author of this poem may have written it as a reaction to Clough's The Bothie of Tober-no-Vuolich, and one of the characters in this work was referred to as a "cosmic last resort" in a poem by Anthony Hecht.  
The author of this poem may have written it as a reaction to Clough's The Bothie of Tober-no-Vuolich, and one of the characters in this work was referred to as a "cosmic last resort" in a poem by Anthony Hecht.  The last stanza of this work opens by imploring "Ah Love! Let us be true to one another" because the world "hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light". The author references Sophocles in the second stanza, stating that "he heard it on the Aegean".  He hears the seas' "melancholy, withdrawing roar", and also states that the waves bring in "The eternal note of sadness".   Beginning with the observation that "The sea is calm to-night", FTP, this is what poem whose title refers to a location where "ignorant armies clash by night", by Matthew Arnold.
The author of this poem may have written it as a reaction to Clough's The Bothie of Tober-no-Vuolich, and one of the characters in this work was referred to as a "cosmic last resort" in a poem by Anthony Hecht.  
"{Dover Beach"}