 It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration ; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea. Listen ! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his...  The Quarterly Review - Page 467edited by - 1918Full view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 180 pages
...adoration ; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven is on the Sea: Listen ! the mighty Being is awake And doth with his...motion make A sound like thunder — everlastingly. Dear Child ! dear Girl ! that walkest with me here, If thou appear'st untouch'd by solemn thought,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 358 pages
...adoration ; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven is on the Sea : Listen ! the mighty Being is awake And doth with his eternal motion make A aound like thunder — everlastingly. Dear Child ! dear Girl ! that walkest with me here, If thou appear'st... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven is on the Sea : Listen ! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with...motion make A sound like thunder — everlastingly. Dear Child ! dear Girl ! that walkest with me here, If thou appear'st untouched by solemn thought,... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...adoration ; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven is on the Sea : Listen ! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with...motion make A sound like thunder — everlastingly. Dear Child ! dear Girl ! that walkest with me here, If thou appear'st untouched by solemn thought,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1820 - 362 pages
...adoration ; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven is on the Sea : Listen ! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with...motion make A sound like thunder — everlastingly. Dear Child ! dear Girl ! that walkest with me here, If thou' appear'st untouched by solemn thought,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 412 pages
...adoration ; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven is on the Sea : Listen ! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with...motion make A sound like thunder — everlastingly. Dear Child ! dear Girl ! that walkest with me here, If thou appear'st untouched by solemn thought,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1899 - 308 pages
...the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea : Listen ! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with...motion make A sound like thunder — everlastingly. Dear Child! dear Girl ! that walkest with me here, If thou appear untouched by solemn thought, Thy... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1831 - 342 pages
...influence, a personification of unending duration, uttering aloud the oracles of primeval truth. ' Listen ! the mighty being is awake, And doth with...motion make A sound like thunder, everlastingly.' V Where are the myriads of men who have trodden its shores, and gone down to it in ships? They are... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich, George Stillman Hilliard - 1831 - 372 pages
...sleepless influence, a personification of unending duration, uttering aloud the oracles of primeval truth. 'Listen ! the mighty being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion mako A sound like thunder, everlastingly.' Where are the myriads of men who have trodden its shores,... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...adoration ; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven is on the sea. Listen ! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with...motion make A sound like thunder — everlastingly. Dear child! dear girl, that walkest with me here ! If thou appearest untouched by solemn thought, Thy... | |
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