 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 412 pages
...fellowship is secure. XXVI. COMPOSED II VON WESTMINSTER IIKIDCK, SEPT. 3, 1803. EARTH has not any thing to show more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could...domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky ; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 pages
...thy tender heart. SONNET. COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE, SEPT. 3, 1803. EARTH has not any thing to show more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could...domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky ; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep,... | |
 | Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 pages
...the shadow of the Parthenon, Or on the ruins of the Capitol. j. Montgomery. LONDON AT SUNRISE. EARTH has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he...domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glitt'ring in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep... | |
 | English poetry - 1833 - 240 pages
...194 103 .WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE, SEPT. 3, 1803. EARTH has not any thing to show more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could...domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky ; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1834 - 600 pages
...great poet's ' Sonnet composed on Westmiuslerbridge' will recur to every reader's remembrance. ' Earth has not anything to show more fair. Dull would he...domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky . . . The river glideth at his own sweet will . . . And all that mighty heart is lying... | |
 | Theology - 1836 - 532 pages
...will give a specimen or two. Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1803. Earth has not any thing to show more fair ; Dull would he be of soul who could...domes, theatres and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky ; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep... | |
 | Robert Walsh - Serial publications - 1836 - 530 pages
...think, an echo to them in the following specimen of the metre of the sonnet: " Earth has not any thing to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could...domes, theatres and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 412 pages
...heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE. EARTH has not any thing to show more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could...domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky, — All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 378 pages
...Then gladly would I end my mortal days. SONNET COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE, SEPT. 3, 1803v EARTH has not anything to show more fair : Dull would he...domes, theatres, and temples lie' Open unto the fields and to the sky, All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep... | |
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EARTH has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie Open... 
