 Ah ! then if mine had been the painter's hand To express what then I saw, and add the gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration, and the poet's dream...  Poems - Page 338by William Wordsworth - 1815Full view - About this book
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - English poetry - 1870 - 466 pages
...painter's hand To express what then I saw ; and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, 15 I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile, Amid a...to smile; On tranquil land, beneath a sky of bliss. 20 Thou should'st have seemed a treasure-house divine Of peaceful years, a chronicle of heaven ; Of... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...was day to day, Whene'er I looked, thy image still was there. It trembled ; but it never passed away. Ah, then, if mine had been the painter's hand To express...to smile, On tranquil land, beneath a sky of bliss. A picture had it been of lasting ease, Elysian quiet, without toil or strife ; No motion but the moving... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Superexlibris - 1871 - 630 pages
...brings : I could have fancied that the mighty Пеер Was even the gentlest of all gentle things. Ah ! THEN, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To...consecration, and the Poet's dream ; I would have planted thce, thou hoary Pile Amid a world how different from this ! Beside a sea that could not cease to smile... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1871 - 642 pages
...fancied that the mighty Deep Was even the gentlest of all gentie things. Ah! THEN, if mine had heen the Painter's hand, To express what then I saw ; and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The conseeration, and the Poet's dream ; I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile Amid a... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - Authors - 1871 - 350 pages
...to the commonplaces of his thinking, and apparels his loftier conceptions in celestial light, — " The gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the poet's dream." The first and grandest exercise, therefore, of his imagination is the creation of this harmonizing... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1872 - 584 pages
...away or brings : I could have fancied that the mighty deep Was even the gentlest of all gentle things. Ah ! THEN, if mine had been the painter's hand, To express what then I saw ; and add the gleam, The lustre, known to neither sea nor land, But borrowed from the youthful poet's dream ; I would have planted... | |
 | Noble Kibby Royse - American literature - 1872 - 376 pages
...sublime and enchanting regions — regions which, to all that is lovely in the forms and colors of earth, "Add the gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the poet's dream." A motion of the hand brings all Arcadia to sight. The war of Troy can, at our bidding, rage in the... | |
 | J. Campbell Shairp - Ethics - 1872 - 364 pages
...so powerfully the familiar appearances and common facts of earth, adding, as he himself says, — " The gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the poet's dream," one is tempted to ask, Is this true, is the light real, or only fantastic? Now in this, I conceive,... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - English drama - 1872 - 488 pages
...being. It were difficult to name any thing else of human workmanship so thoroughly transfigured with "the gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the poet's dream." The celestial and the earthly are here so commingled, — commingled, but not confounded, — that... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - 1873 - 766 pages
...that verse of Wordsworth's from the " Elegiac Stanzas suggested by a picture of Poele Castle : " — " Ah ! then, if mine had been the painter's hand To...express what then I saw ; and ADD the gleam, The light tJml ntvcr max on sea or land. The consecration, and thc poefs dream! " Well, though these lines help... | |
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