 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...  Poems, selected from the best eds - Page 258by William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1880Full view - About this book
 | 1852 - 348 pages
...Silent, hare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie, Open nnto the fields and to the sky, All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never...sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour valleys, rock, or bill ; Ne'er saw I— never felt— a calm so deep !" So let us not be sighing here... | |
 | John Francis Waller - 1852 - 154 pages
...city, unpolluted with the reeking vapours, and smoke, and steam of the thronging human hive. " The river glideth at his own sweet will : Dear God ! the very houses seem asleep. And all that mighty heart is lying still." Moonlight in Rome ! Who that has seen it may forget it ever.... | |
 | 1853 - 792 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 glkleth at his own sweet will ; Dear God f the very houses seem asleep. And all that mighty heart is... | |
 | David W. Bartlett - London (England) - 1853 - 352 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 did sun more beautifully steep In his (irst splendor valley, rock or hill ; Ne'er saw I, never felt a calm so deep ! The i iver glideth at... | |
 | Sarah Carter Edgarton Mayo - American poetry - 1853 - 346 pages
...beautifully steep In his first splendor, valley, rock or hill ; Ne'er saw I, never felt a calm so deep, Tke river glideth at his own sweet will. Dear God ! the very houses seem asleep ; And all that mighty heart is lying still." How my young heart did always rebel against that line... | |
 | Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 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...I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at its own sweet will; Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still.... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - Authors, English - 1854 - 292 pages
...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. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendor, valley, rock or hill, Ne'er saw, ne'er felt, a calm so deep. The river glideth at his own... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1854 - 432 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 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... | |
 | William Keddie - Literature - 1854 - 400 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 did sun more beautifully steep In his tirst splendour, valley, rock, or hill ; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep ! The river glideth... | |
 | Cheshire (England) - 1855 - 712 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...sweet will ; Dear God ! the very houses seem asleep ; And all that mighty heart is lying still. It will be observed here that most of the natural objects... | |
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