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 unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright... The Literary magnet of the belles lettres, science, and the fine arts, ed ... - Página 711829Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Robert Walsh - 1836 - 522 páginas
...first splendour, valley, rock, or hill; 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 lying still!" In this form the poem is cast by those who have implicitly... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 412 páginas
...lowliest duties on herself did lay. COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE. EARTH has not any thing to show 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 ! GREAT MEN. GREAT men have been among us ; hands that penned... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 336 páginas
...Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky, — • All hright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun...sweet will : Dear God ! the very houses seem asleep ; And all that mighty heart is lying still ! GREAT MEN. GREAT men have heen among us ; hands that penned... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 348 páginas
...temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky, — All bright and glittering in the smokeless nir. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first...sweet will : Dear God ! the very houses seem asleep ; And all that mighty heart is lying still ! CHEAT MEN. GREAT men have been among us ; hands that penned... | |
| Thomas Browne Browne - 1838 - 274 páginas
...more beautifully steep In his first splendour valley, rock, or hill, * Why thunderstricken ? 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." This is very true and noble; nevertheless the twelfth... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1838 - 508 páginas
...first'gplcndour, valley, rork, or hill ; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm яо deep ! The river glidetb at his own sweet will: Dear God ! the very houses seem asleep ; And all that mighty heart is lying still ! MISCELLANEOUS SONXETS. ч • XXXI. ОХГОКО,' MAÏ... | |
| 1839 - 444 páginas
...theatres and temples, lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky ; All bright and glittering in the nnokeleu air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first...sweet will: Dear God ! the very houses seem asleep ; And all that mighty heart is lying BtUl I'" It is difficult, almost impossible, fully to understand... | |
| David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 714 páginas
...adducing one beautiful example. SONNET. COMPOSED ON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE. EARTU has not any thing to show 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 Ml! The reader feels as this fine sonnet is wound up with the sublime... | |
| David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 364 páginas
...adducing one beautiful example. SONNET. COMPOSED ON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE. EARTH has not any thing to show 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 ! The reader feels as this fine sonnet is wound up with the... | |
| 1840 - 368 páginas
...mortal days. SONNET COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BBIDGE, SEPT. 3, 1803k EARTH has not anything to show 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 ! VOL. II.— DD TO A HIGHLAND OIRL. SWEET Highland girl,... | |
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