 | 1857 - 336 pages
...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...sweet will : Dear God ! the very houses seem asleep, And all that mighty heart is lying still !" In this form the poem is cast by those who haye implicitly... | |
 | Charles Manby Smith - London - 1857 - 452 pages
...steep, In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill ; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep 1 The river glideth at his own sweet will : Dear God ! the very houses seem asleep ; And all that mighty heart is lying still 1" Yes, the mighty heart of London is lying still ; the... | |
 | 1864 - 492 pages
...his first splendour valley, rock, or hill; 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 still !" We now come to Wordsworth's "Ecclesiastical Sonnets," "wherein,"... | |
 | WILLIAM WORDSWOTH - 1858 - 564 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - American poetry - 1858 - 644 pages
...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...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 - Bookbinding - 1858 - 550 pages
...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...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
...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 ! The river glideth...sweet will! Dear God ! the very houses seem asleep ; And all that mighty heart is lying still." Who could attempt to displace any word in that sonnet... | |
 | 1895 - 722 pages
...of suicide, deciding finally to postpone it for the present. I thought of Wordsworth's sonnet : The river glideth at his own sweet will : Dear God ! the very houses seem asleep, And all that mighty heart is lying still. It certainly was an impressive sight. I went up to the coffee-stall... | |
 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 1860 - 312 pages
...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...sweet will : Dear God ! the very houses seem asleep, And all that mighty heart is lying still !" In this form the poem is cast by those who have implicitly... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...air. Never aid 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...sweet will : Dear God ! the very houses seem asleep ; And all that mighty heart is lying still ! WORDSWORTH. She Wader Spt*bfeell. YE wintry flowers, whose... | |
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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! 
