 | Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 428 sider
...EARTH hath not any thing to show more fair ; Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight BO touching in its majesty; This city now doth like a...Never did sun more beautifully steep, In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill ; Ne'er saw I, never felt a calm so deep ! The river glideth at his... | |
 | 1864 - 494 sider
...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,...Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour valley, rock, or hill; Ne'er saw I, never felt a calm so deep! The river ghdeth at his own... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1858 - 516 sider
...a specimen or two. "COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE, SEPTEMBER 3, 1803. " Earth has not any thing to show more fair : Dull would he be of soul, who...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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1858 - 550 sider
...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...Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour valley, rock, or hill ; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep ! The river glideth at his... | |
 | WILLIAM WORDSWOTH - 1858 - 564 sider
...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...Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour valley, rock, or hill ; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep ! The river glideth at his... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1859 - 428 sider
...their passage to the salt-sea tides ! xxxvi. COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE, SEPT. 3, 1802. EA.KTH 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 ! xxxvn. CONCLUSION. TO . IF these brief Records, by the... | |
 | Joseph Cross - 1859 - 536 sider
...charming sonnet : Earth has not any thing to show more fair ; Dull would be he of 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 its own sweet will: Dear God ! the very houses seem asleep, And all that mighty heart is lying still!... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1860 - 312 sider
...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...Never did sun more beautifully steep, In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill ; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep. The river glideth at his... | |
 | Joseph Cross (D.D.) - 1860 - 466 sider
...sonnet : — Earth has not anything to show more fair ; Dull would bo he of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty : This city now...Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour valley, rock, or hill : Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep : The river glideth at its... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 sider
...Fled is that music:—do I wake or sleep ? J. Keats CCXLV UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE, Sept. 3, 1802 Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he...Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour valley, rock, or hill ; The river glideth at his own sweet will : Dear God ! the very houses... | |
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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... 
