 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
 | A Montagu Woodford - 1841 - 320 Seiten
...own sweet will; Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still! 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 doth... | |
 | lord William Pitt Lennox - 1841 - 898 Seiten
...flowers of spring were in their richest bloom, as the General and Ravensworth left the priory. " It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time...with adoration ; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity." Stopping at a small public-house, the General, taking the pistols from the carriage,... | |
 | 1857 - 830 Seiten
...powerful and intense meditation with the utmost sweetness of feeling and melody of expression : "It is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time...is quiet as a nun, Breathless with adoration ; the brood sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven is on the sea. Listen I the... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1887 - 490 Seiten
...describes the deep peace of a summer evening : " It is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy air is quiet as a nun, Breathless with adoration ; the broad sun Is sinking down in his tranquility : The gentleness of heaven is on the sea," etc. Or when in the Excursion he describes... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1844 - 548 Seiten
...utmost sweetness of feeling. " It is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time is quiet an a nun Breathless 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 doth... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 Seiten
...that power divine Rejoice, as, through that power, it ceased to mourn. IT is a beauteous evening, cahu 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... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 Seiten
...tes arepowerlcssphantomswhenutf build." CHILDHOOD. Am 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 it« tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven brood's o'er the sea : But list! the mighty Being is awake,... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1846 - 444 Seiten
...the prelude wherewith it seems as if nature herself would put man in harmony for the Sabbath. " It is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time...with adoration ; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity ; Listen ! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 Seiten
..."Hell-gates are powerless phantomswhenioebuild." CHILDHOOD. Am 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 brood's o'er the sea : But list ! the mighty Bring is awake,... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1847 - 382 Seiten
...the prelude wherewith it seems as if nature herself would put man in harmony for the Sahhath. " It is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time...with adoration ; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity ; Listen ! the mighty Being is awake. And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like... | |
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