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... Text-book of Poetry: From Wordsworth, Coleridge, Burns, Beattie, Goldsmith ... - Page 79by Henry Norman Hudson - 1875 - 694 pagesFull view - About this book
| English poetry - 1844 - 92 pages
...could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth like a garment wear The heauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes,...calm so deep ! The river glideth at his own sweet will: Ah me ! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still! WORDSWORTH. THIRD... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...passage to the salt-sea tides ! xxxvi. *'" -t '"- COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE, SEPT. 3, l802. EARTH has not any thing to show more fair : Dull would...valley, rock, or hill ; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a cahu so deep ! The river glideth at his own sweet will : Dear God ! the very houses seem asleep ; And... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1846 - 332 pages
...who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty : This City now doth, like a garment, wear c 2 The beauty of the morning ; silent, bare, Ships, towers,...sweet will : Dear God ! the very houses seem asleep ; And all that mighty heart is lying still ! GREAT MEN. GREAT men have been among us ; hands that penned... | |
| Book - 1847 - 206 pages
...wreathed horn. WORDSWORTH. WRITTEN AT SUNRISE ON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE. EARTH has not any thing to shew more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could pass...calm so deep ! The river glideth at his own sweet will : Ah me, the very houses seem asleep, And all that mighty heart is lying still ! WORDSWORTH. WORK... | |
| Book - 1847 - 216 pages
...wreathed horn. WORDSWORTH. WRITTEN AT SUNRISE ON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE. EARTH has not any thing to shew more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could pass...calm so deep ! The river glideth at his own sweet will : Ah me, the very houses seem asleep, And all that mighty heart is lying still ! WORDSWORTH. WORK... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 616 pages
...world's vain mask Content, though blind, had I no better guide. WORDSWORTH. Earth has not anything to show more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could...Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep ! The river gliding at his own sweet will ; Dear God ! the very houses seem asleep ; And all that mighty heart... | |
| 1847 - 334 pages
...chimneys will ere long create ; he will feel with the poet of the lakes, '. Earth has not anything to shew more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could pass...I, never felt, a calm so deep. The river glideth at its own sweet will : But for us, just now, the city is all life and energy. Around us, as we approach... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1849 - 668 pages
...passage to the salt-sea tides t COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE, SEPT. 3, 1802. EARTH has not any tiling to show more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could...sweet will : Dear God ! the very houses seem asleep ; And all that mighty heart is lying still ! CONCLUSION. IF these brief Records, by the Muses' art... | |
| John Fisher Murray - 1849 - 388 pages
...in its majesty : This City now doth, like a garment, wear The heauty of the morning : silent, hare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples, lie Open...Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glidelh at his own sweet will: Dear God ! the very houses seem asleep ; And all that mighty heart is... | |
| 1851 - 492 pages
...removed. The following exquisite sonnet was composed upon Westminster Bridge, September the 3rd, 1803:— Earth has not any thing to show more fair ; Dull would...The river glideth at his own sweet will : Dear God I the very houses seem asleep ; And dU that mighty heart is lying still. — Wordsworth* I VAUXHALL... | |
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