IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea: Listen! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his... Essays and Reviews ... - Seite 240von Edwin Percy Whipple - 1848 - 360 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Robert Walsh - 1836 - 522 Seiten
...would pass unheeded. The following may be taken after little more than a moment's selection :— " It is a beauteous evening, calm and free; The holy time...with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven is on the sea: Listen ! the ruighty Being is awake, And doth,... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1837 - 376 Seiten
...as, through that power, it ceased to mourn. XXX. AIR sleeps, — from strife or stir the clouds are free ; The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless...with adoration ; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea : But list ! the mighty Being is awake,... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 412 Seiten
...in his hand The Thing became a trumpet, whenee he blew Soul-animating strains, — alas, too few. IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time...with adoration ; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven is on the sea ; Listen ! — the mighty Being is awake, And... | |
| Thomas Browne Browne - 1838 - 274 Seiten
...sonnet! The rest is scarcely so good, but no part of it is in the " language really used by men." " It is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time...with adoration ; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven is on the sea." There is nothing in inanimate nature so pathetic... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 336 Seiten
...he hlew Soul-animating strains, — alas, too few. 1T 1S A BKAUT£OUS LvtN1.Nti. IT is a heauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time is quiet as...with adoration ; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven is on the sea ; Listen !— the mighty Being is awake, And... | |
| Mrs. S. C. Hall - 1838 - 228 Seiten
...beneath him, still — the sky above him, clear. " The evening, calm and free — The holy time as quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration — the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven is on the sea." But its gentleness passes away, even while he... | |
| James Montgomery - 1838 - 332 Seiten
...The winds, that will be howling at all hours And are up-gather'd now, like sleeping flmecri." " It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a mm, Breathless with adoration /" " Flowers laugh before thee in their beds, And fragrance in thy footing... | |
| 1839 - 538 Seiten
...the heedless little one, that sports beside him : " Air sleeps — from strife or stir the clouds are free ; The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless...with adoration ; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea : But list ! the mighty Being is awake,... | |
| William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1840 - 376 Seiten
...divine Rejoice, as, through that power, it ceased to mourn. xxx. A FAIRER face of evening cannot be ; The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration ; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea : Listen ! the mighty Being is awake, And... | |
| James Montgomery - 1840 - 340 Seiten
..." The winds, that will be howling at all hours And are up-gather'd now, like sleeping flomsn." " It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a nun, Breathless with adoration !" " Flower* laugh before thee in their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads." " The cataracts... | |
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