 It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea: Listen! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his...  Lectures on the British Poets - Sida 260efter Henry Reed - 1860Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 358 sidor
...forlorn Have sight of Proteus coming from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. 1s. 19. It is a beauteous Evening, calm and free; The holy time...Being is awake And doth with his eternal motion make A aound like thunder — everlastingly. Dear Child ! dear Girl ! that walkest with me here, If thou appear'st... | |
 | 1808 - 596 sidor
...will be howling at all hours, And are ufi gather'd now, like sleeping flowers.' Vol. I. p. 122. ' It is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless -with adoration.' Vol. I. p. 123. ' Dear Child ! dear Girl ! that walkest with me here, If thoa appear*st untouch'd by... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1899 - 308 sidor
...as, through that power, it ceased to mourn. Sunset and IT '8 a beauteous evening, calm and free, Sea The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration...down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea : Listen ! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1828 - 372 sidor
...Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower, And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind. IT is a beauteous Evening, calm and free ; The holy time is quiet as a Nun lireathless with adoration ; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1831 - 342 sidor
...influence, a personification of unending duration, uttering aloud the oracles of primeval truth. ' Listen ! the mighty being is awake, And doth with...motion make A sound like thunder, everlastingly.' V Where are the myriads of men who have trodden its shores, and gone down to it in ships? They are... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich, George Stillman Hilliard - 1831 - 372 sidor
...sleepless influence, a personification of unending duration, uttering aloud the oracles of primeval truth. 'Listen ! the mighty being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion mako A sound like thunder, everlastingly.' Where are the myriads of men who have trodden its shores,... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1833 - 348 sidor
...The winds, that will be howling at all hours And are up-gather'd now, like sleeping flowers." " It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a nun, Breathless with adoration .'" " Flowers laugh before thee in their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treadt" " The cataracts... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1833 - 368 sidor
...The winds, that will be howling at all hours And are up-gather'd now, like sleeping flowert." " It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a mm. Breathless with adoration l" " F.lmocrt laugh before thee in their beds, And fragrance in thy footing... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1836 - 530 sidor
...secret sense of hearing, apt for the music of poetry, we would cheerfully commit almost any one of Mr. Wordsworth's sonnets, without an apprehension that...And doth, with his eternal motion, make A sound like thunder—everlastingly. Dear child ! dear girl! that walkest with me here, If thou appear'st untouched... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1836 - 522 sidor
...secret sense of hearing, apt for the music of poetry, we would cheerfully commit almost any one of Mr. Wordsworth's sonnets, without an apprehension that...The gentleness of heaven is on the sea: Listen ! the ruighty Being is awake, And doth, with his eternal motion, make A sound like thunder—everlastingly.... | |
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