 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...  The English Poets - Page 83edited by - 1893Full view - About this book
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendor valley, rock, or hill; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a...sweet will: Dear God! the very houses seem asleep ; And all that mighty heart is lying still! TO THE CUCKOO. 0 BLITHE new-comer! I have heard, 1 hear... | |
 | Alexander Dyce - 1833 - 240 pages
...all the mighty ravishment of spring. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE, SEPT. 3, 1803. EARTH has not any thing to show more fair :...sweet will : Dear God ! the very houses seem asleep ; And all that mighty heart is lying still ! .WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. 1801. I GRIEV'D for Buonaparte, with... | |
 | 1833 - 742 pages
...he produced the following sonnet, COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE. Earth has not anything to shew more fair. Dull would he be of soul who could pass...sweet will : Dear God ! the very houses seem asleep, And all that mighty heart is lying still !" Now Mr. Poplar has allowed to be printed in a note at the... | |
 | Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 pages
...towers, 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...calm so deep ! The river glideth at his own sweet will : To me the very houses seem asleep ; And all that mighty heart is lying still ! Wordsworth. ON... | |
 | Thomas Moule - 1834 - 382 pages
...be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty : The city now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning ; silent, bare, Ships,...sweet will, Dear god ! the very houses seem asleep ; And all the mighty heart is lying still ! LDNDON : PHIXTF.n BY MANNING AM) SVI LONUoN-ltul SE YARD.... | |
 | 1835 - 742 pages
...Jt'estmiaster Bridge. Earth has not anything to shew more fair : Dull would he be the soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty ; This city now...never felt, a calm so deep ; The river glideth at his owu sweet will ; Dear God ! the very houses seem asleep, A in I all that mighty heart is lying still.... | |
 | 1835 - 746 pages
...silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lieOpen unto the fields and to the sky ; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never...The river glideth at his own sweet will ; Dear God T the very houses seem asleep, And all that mighty heart is lying still. The reader feels, as this... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1836 - 530 pages
...us, he will find, we 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...sweet will : Dear God ! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still!" In this form the poem is cast by those who have implicitly... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1836 - 522 pages
...us, he will find, we 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...Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glidcth at his own sweet will: Dear God ! the very houses seem asleep ; And all that mighty heart is... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 412 pages
...godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE. EARTH has not any thing to show more fair : Dull would...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... | |
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