 | Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1826 - 550 pages
...the sky ; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his 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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 412 pages
...the sky ; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his 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... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 pages
...sky ; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep, In his 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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Sonnets, English - 1899 - 308 pages
...the sky ; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his 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... | |
 | 1829 - 348 pages
...the sky ; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his 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... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - Religious poetry, English - 1832 - 378 pages
...the sky ; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1833 - 240 pages
...the sky ; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his 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... | |
 | 1833 - 742 pages
...the sky ; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his 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... | |
 | Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 pages
...the sky; All bright and glitt'ring in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour valley, rock, or hill ; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep ! The river glideth at his own sweet will : To me the very houses seem asleep ; And all that... | |
 | Thomas Moule - Great Britain - 1834 - 382 pages
...the sky ; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his 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... | |
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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 unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.... 
