 COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE 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,...  Blake and the City - Pagina 15door Jennifer Davis Michael - 2006 - 235 pagina’sGedeeltelijke weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1864 - 492 pagina’s
...his first splendour valley, rock, or hill; Ne'er saw I, never felt a calm so deep! The river ghdeth at his own sweet will. Dear God! the very houses seem asleep, And all that mighty heart is lying still !" We now come to Wordsworth's "Ecclesiastical Sonnets," "wherein,"... | |
 | WILLIAM WORDSWOTH - 1858 - 564 pagina’s
...officious touch that makes me droop again. COMPOSED CPOH WISTMIirSIER KRIDGE, sIPT. 3, 1803. EAIl'TH has not anything to show more fair : Dull would he...sweet will : Dear God ! the very houses seem asleep ; And all that mighty heart is lying still ! PELION and Ossa flourish side by side, Together in immortal... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1858 - 550 pagina’s
...The officious touch that makes me droop again. COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE, SEPT. 3, 1803. EARTH has not anything to show more fair : Dull would he...sweet will : Dear God ! the very houses seem asleep ; And all that mighty heart is lying still ! . ELION and Ossa flourish side by side, Together in immortal... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1858 - 644 pagina’s
...silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lir O|>en unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never...sweet will : Dear God ! the very houses seem asleep ; And all that mighty heart is lying still ! LAMB. HESTER.— A REMEMBRANCE. WIIKN maidens such as... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1858 - 516 pagina’s
...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." Who could attempt to displace any word in that sonnet... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1858 - 642 pagina’s
...smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour valley, rock or bill : Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep. The river glideth at...sweet will: Dear God! the very houses seem asleep: And all that mighty heart is lying still! SONNET. LAMB. HESTER.— A REMEMBRANCE. WHEN maidens such... | |
 | 1895 - 722 pagina’s
...of suicide, deciding finally to postpone it for the present. I thought of Wordsworth's sonnet : The river glideth at his own sweet will : Dear God ! the very houses seem asleep, And all that mighty heart is lying still. It certainly was an impressive sight. I went up to the coffee-stall... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1860 - 312 pagina’s
...repose which he has given in his famous sonnet on Westminster Bridge:— " Earth has not any thing 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." To take one other illustration : most persons have, I imagine,... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pagina’s
...lie, Open unto the fields and to the sky, All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never aid sun more beautifully steep, In his first splendour,...all that mighty heart is lying still ! WORDSWORTH. She Wader Spt*bfeell. YE wintry flowers, whose pensive dyes Wake, where the summer's lily sleeps !... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1861 - 662 pagina’s
...glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour valley, rook, or hill ; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep...sweet will : Dear God ! the very houses seem asleep ; And all that mighty heart is lying still ! XXVIL PELION and Ossa flourish side by side, Together... | |
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