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 is on the sea : Listen ! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with His eternal... English Sonnets: A Selection - Page 102edited by - 1873 - 238 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Wordsworth - 1807 - 180 pages
...wreathed horn. 18. 19. It is a beauteous Evening, calm and free; The holy time is quiet as a Nun . Breathless with adoration ; the broad sun Is sinking...Girl ! that walkest with me here, If thou appear'st untouch'd by solemn thought, Thy nature is not therefore less divine : Thou liest in Abraham's bosom.... | |
| William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1807 - 358 pages
...his wreathed horn. 1s. 19. It is a beauteous Evening, calm and free; The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration ; the broad sun Is sinking...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... | |
| William Wordsworth - Fore-edge painting - 1828 - 372 pages
...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...is on the Sea : Listen! the mighty Being is awake, AnJ doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder — everlastingly. Dear Child ! dear Girl... | |
| William Wordsworth - Sonnets, English - 1899 - 308 pages
...to mourn. Sunset and IT '8 a beauteous evening, calm and free, Sea 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 eternal motion make A sound... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1831 - 342 pages
...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 - English literature - 1831 - 372 pages
...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,... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...strains — alas, too few ! IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free. The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration ; the broad sun Is sinking...child! dear girl, that walkest with me here ! If thou appearest untouched by solemn thought, Thy nature is not, therefore, less divine: Thou Host in Abraham's... | |
| Robert Walsh - Serial publications - 1836 - 530 pages
...moment's selection :— " It is a beauteous evening, calm and free; The holy time is quiet as a nun, Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking...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 - Serial publications - 1836 - 522 pages
...moment's selection :— " It is a beauteous evening, calm and free; The holy time is quiet as a nun, Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking...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.... | |
| William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1837 - 376 pages
...mourn. XXX. AIR sleeps, — from strife or stir the clouds are 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 : But list ! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A... | |
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