 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 714 pages
...silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky ; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never...Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep ! The river glideth at his own sweet will ; Dear God ! the very houses seem asleep, And all that mighty heart is... | |
 | A Montagu Woodford - 1841 - 320 pages
...bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky;— All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never...Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep ! The river glideth at his own sweet will; Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is... | |
 | Methodist Episcopal Church - 1857 - 830 pages
...silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theaters, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill ; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep I The river glided at his... | |
 | American poetry - 1842 - 480 pages
...silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples, lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never...Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep ! The river glideth at his own sweet will : Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is... | |
 | Books - 1842 - 610 pages
...silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky ; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never...first splendour, valley, rock, or hill ; Ne'er saw I, ne'er felt, a calm so deep ! The river glideth at his own sweet will ! Dear God ! the very houses seem... | |
 | John Fisher Murray - London (England) - 1842 - 322 pages
...silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples, lie Open unto the fields, and to the aky ; All bright, and glittering in the smokeless air. Never...beautifully steep In his first splendour, valley, rock, or bill. Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glidelh at his own sweet will : Dear God !... | |
 | American poetry - 1862 - 512 pages
...first splendour valley, rock, or hill; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep ! The river glideth at his own sweet will: Dear God ! the very houses seem asleep ; And all that mighty heart is lying still ! THIS poet was bora at the little town of Irvine, in Ayrshire,... | |
 | Periodicals - 1843 - 280 pages
...silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples, lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky. All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never...Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at its own sweet will : [In truth] the very houses seem asleep, And all that mighty heart is... | |
 | William James Linton - 1844 - 340 pages
...silent, hare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky ; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never...Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep ! The river glideth at his own sweet will : Dear God ! the very houses seem asleep ; And all that mighty heart... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 92 pages
...silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never...Ne'er saw I, never felt, a 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... | |
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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... 
