 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...  Text-book of Poetry: From Wordsworth, Coleridge, Burns, Beattie, Goldsmith ... - Page 79by Henry Norman Hudson - 1875 - 694 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1857 - 428 pages
...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...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.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 334 pages
...temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky ; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. VI. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first...calm so deep ! The river glideth at his own sweet will : Ah me ! the very houses seem asleep ; And all that mighty heart is lying still ! WORDSWORTH.... | |
 | WILLIAM WORDSWOTH - 1858 - 564 pages
...that makes me droop again. COMPOSED CPOH WISTMIirSIER KRIDGE, sIPT. 3, 1803. EAIl'TH has not anything to show more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could...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
...that makes me droop again. COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE, SEPT. 3, 1803. EARTH has not anything to show more fair : Dull would he be of soul who eould...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... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - Theology - 1858 - 516 pages
...those thoughts. We will give a specimen or two. "COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE, SEPTEMBER 3, 1803. " Earth has not any thing to show more fair : Dull would...Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep ! The river glideth at his... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1859 - 428 pages
...the salt-sea tides ! xxxvi. COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE, SEPT. 3, 1802. EA.KTH has not anything to show more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could...Never did sun more beautifully steep, In his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill ; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep ! The river glideth at his... | |
 | Joseph Cross - Europe - 1859 - 536 pages
...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 did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendor valley, rock, or hill: Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep : The river glideth at its... | |
 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 1860 - 312 pages
...exquisite expression of deep repose which he has given in his famous sonnet on Westminster Bridge:— " Earth has not any thing to show more fair. Dull would...sweet will; Dear God! the very houses seem asleep, And all that mighty heart is lying still." To take one other illustration : most persons have, I imagine,... | |
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