 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1871 - 350 páginas
...intense, in which Wordsworth stands almost alone among modern poets. A fairer face of evening cannot be ; The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration...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... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1871 - 642 páginas
...spirit in that power divine Rejoice, as, through that power, it ceased to mourn. XXХ. IT is a heauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration ; the hroad sun Is sinkine down in its tranquillity : The gentleness of heaven hroods o'er the Sea : Listen... | |
 | Poems - 1872 - 362 páginas
...sun sheds over all A pleasant, farewell smile, And so returns to God. FROM THE GERMAN. BY THE SEA. TT is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time...sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the sea : Listen ! the mighty being is awake, A.nd doth with his eternal motion... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1872 - 584 páginas
...[shower, Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind. IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time...Breathless with adoration ; the broad sun Is sinking down m its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven is on the sea : Listen ! the mighty Being is awake, And... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1872 - 396 páginas
...I Q — 0 U i K E < a. YII. — EYENING. £ |ra"pj|T is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; nrjjra The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration...sinking down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven is on the sea : Listen ! the mighty being is awake, H * One of the sweet Berkshire rivers ;... | |
 | 1872 - 836 páginas
...turned over the leaves, and read in a clear, impassioned voice, those lovely lines, commencing with " It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a nun," &c. When he had finished, he relapsed into a satisfied silence from, which we did not disturb him.... | |
 | Bill Moore - 1987 - 180 páginas
...can be so good, as in "Helen:" . . . the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome. It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless in adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquility. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Tranquility. Fair... | |
 | Kenneth Burke - 1989 - 348 páginas
...sonnet by Wordsworth that is a perfect instance of the scene-agent ratio treated theologically: It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time...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... | |
 | Elizabeth Langland - 1989 - 188 páginas
...asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still! (Composed upon Westminster Bridge, 11 8-14) and It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time...with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquility; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea: (It is a Beauteous Evening, 1 1 1-5) But... | |
 | Carl R. Hausman - 1989 - 264 páginas
...violating their dictionary meanings."21 One of his illustrations is taken from a sonnet by Wordsworth:22 It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration. . . . After pointing out that the girl who is present with the speaker in the poem paradoxically appears... | |
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The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea: Listen! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder — everlastingly. 
