 | David Bromwich - 2000 - 204 Seiten
...Caroline, which reminds him of the vast gulf fixed between his thoughtful life and her innocent one — Listen! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his...motion make A sound like thunder — everlastingly — offers the same consolation that nature does in a poem of another absence; a loss effected by the... | |
 | Lance St. John Butler - 1999 - 230 Seiten
...chaste religious calm. As all this implies, evening is a good time for God, as Wordsworth knew: It is a beauteous evening, calm and free; The holy time...is on the Sea: Listen! The mighty Being is awake... The god is a god of Nature, but the quasi-Christian metaphor is clear: evening is female, quiet, adoring... | |
 | Leonora Leet - 1999 - 276 Seiten
...achieve a state of ultimate tranquillity. It is of such a state that the poet Wordsworth also writes: It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time...with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquility; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea: Listen! the mighty Being is awake, And doth... | |
 | Wim Tigges - 1999 - 500 Seiten
...epiphany occurs in the middle, when the sea's silence and calm make audible its surprising, distant roar: Listen! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his...motion make A sound like thunder — everlastingly. The rest of the sonnet reflects on this epiphany of deity. Such sonnets gave rise to Keats's sonnets,... | |
 | Sylvia Townsend Warner - 2001 - 252 Seiten
...at his hat. If he walked on the beach at sunset repeating to himself that sonnet of Wordsworth's: It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time...tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven is on the sea: long before he had got to: Dear Child! dear Girl! that walkest with me here, he was sure to be interrupted... | |
 | Robert Stockwell, Donka Minkova - 2001 - 224 Seiten
..."adoration." Wordsworth has a wonderful line in a sonnet about a strikingly beautiful evening: "It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time...is quiet as a Nun, Breathless with adoration." The point is, the root which meant "speak" has come to refer to silent worship, a change brought about... | |
 | Emma Driver - 2001 - 150 Seiten
...close above us, heavy with snow, or is empty as far as the eye can see ... 1 am in exile here. (17) It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration (BE, 1-2) On clear nights it can be beautiful ... you can see the wolves moving in packs over the snow,... | |
 | Paula R. Feldman, Daniel Robinson - 1999 - 306 Seiten
...sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. 214. 'It is a beauteous evening, calm and free' It is a beauteous evening, calm and free; The holy time...And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder—everlastingly. Dear Child! dear Girl! that walkest with me here, If thou appear'st untouched... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 2003 - 56 Seiten
...short visit to France during a break in the war, he shares a quiet moment with Caroline at sunset. It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time...down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea: Listen! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2003 - 356 Seiten
...seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still! It is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time...broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gendeness of heaven broods o'er the Sea: Listen! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal... | |
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IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration... 
