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... The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900 - Page 556edited by - 1901 - 1084 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1852 - 1238 pages
...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,...sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour valleys, rock, or hill ; Ne'er saw I — never felt — a calm so deep '. " So let us not be sighing... | |
| John Seely Hart - Readers - 1857 - 394 pages
...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,...sweet will: Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still! LINES. My ncart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky:... | |
| Henry Reed - English poetry - 1857 - 424 pages
...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,...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... | |
| William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1857 - 480 pages
...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,...sweet will : Dear God ! the very houses seem asleep ; And all that mighty heart is lying still ! BROOK ! whose society the Poet seeks, Intent his wasted... | |
| Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1857 - 428 pages
...be of soul who could pass by A sight BO touching in its majesty; This city now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning ; silent, bare, Ships,...deep ! The river glideth at his own sweet will ; Dear Heaven ! the very houses seem asleep : And all that mighty heart is lying still. WORDSWORTH. o 64.... | |
| 1857 - 336 pages
...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,...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... | |
| 1864 - 494 pages
...would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching ia its majesty. This city doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships,...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... | |
| WILLIAM WORDSWOTH - 1858 - 564 pages
...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,...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 - Bookbinding - 1858 - 550 pages
...be of soul who eould 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,...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 - American poetry - 1858 - 644 pages
...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... | |
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