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" 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... "
The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth - Page 283
by William Wordsworth - 1904 - 937 pages
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Poems, in Two Volumes,

William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1807 - 358 pages
...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...down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven is on the Sea : Listen ! the mighty Being is awake And doth with his eternal motion make A aound like...
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Poems, Volume 2

William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...neither present time, nor years unborn Could to my sight that heavenly face restore. 190 XXXIII. IT is a beauteous Evening, calm and free ; The holy time...down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven is on the Sea : Listen ! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like...
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The Miscellaneous Poems of William Wordsworth, Volume 3

William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1820 - 362 pages
...tarrying ; where she comes the winds must stir : On went She, — and due north her journey took XXIX. IT is a beauteous Evening, calm and free ; The holy time...down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven is on the Sea : Listen ! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like...
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume 2

William Wordsworth - 1827 - 412 pages
...Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower, And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind. XXXII. IT is a beauteous Evening, calm and free ; The holy time...down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven is on the Sea : Listen ! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like...
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The Sonnets of William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth - Sonnets, English - 1899 - 308 pages
...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...Dear Child! dear Girl ! that walkest with me here, If thou appear untouched by solemn thought, Thy nature is not therefore less divine : Thou liest in Abraham's...
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American Quarterly Review, Volume 19

Robert Walsh - Serial publications - 1836 - 522 pages
...would pass unheeded. The following may be taken after little more than a moment's selection :— " It is a beauteous evening, calm and free; The holy time...down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven is on the sea: Listen ! the ruighty Being is awake, And doth, with his eternal motion, make A sound...
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The Book of Gems: Wordsworth to Bayly

Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 412 pages
...in his hand The Thing became a trumpet, whenee he blew Soul-animating strains, — alas, too few. IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time...down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven is on the sea ; Listen ! — the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound...
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Thoughts of the times; or, Men and things

Thomas Browne Browne - Absentee landlordism - 1838 - 274 pages
...sonnet! The rest is scarcely so good, but no part of it is in the " language really used by men." " It is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time...down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven is on the sea." There is nothing in inanimate nature so pathetic as the sea at sun-set in complete...
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The poetical works of William Wordsworth, Volume 3

William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1840 - 376 pages
...divine Rejoice, as, through that power, it ceased to mourn. xxx. A FAIRER face of evening cannot be ; The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration...Child ! dear Girl ! that walkest with me here, If thou appear'st untouched by solemn thought, Thy nature is not therefore less divine : Thou liest in...
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The book of sonnets, ed by A.M. Woodford

A Montagu Woodford - 1841 - 320 pages
...own sweet will; Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still! IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free; The holy time...down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven is on the sea; Listen!—the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like...
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