There sometimes doth a leaping fish Send through the tarn a lonely cheer; The crags repeat the raven's croak, In symphony austere; Thither the rainbow comes - the cloud And mists that spread the flying shroud; And sunbeams; and the sounding blast, That,... Blackwood's Magazine - Page 2761826Full view - About this book
| William Wordsworth - 1807 - 358 pages
...Rainbow comes, the Cloud j And Mists that spread the flying shroud ; And Suu-beams ; and the sounding blast, That, if it could, would hurry past, But that enormous Barrier binds it fast. Not knowing what to think, a while The Shepherd stood : then makes his way Towards the... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...Rainbow comes — the Cloud — And Mists that spread the flying shroud; And Sun-beams ; and the sounding blast, That, if it could, would hurry past, But that enormous Barrier binds it fast. ' Tarn is a small Mere or Lake mostly high up in the mountains. Not free from boding... | |
| William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...comes — the Cloud — And Mists that spread the flying shroud ; And Sun-beams ; and the sounding blast, That, if it could, would hurry past, But that enormous Barrier binds it fast. Tarn is a small Mere or Lake mostly high up in the mountains. Not free from boding thoughts,... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 316 pages
...rainbow comes — the cloud, And mists that spread the flying shroud ; And sun-beams ; and the sounding blast, That if it could would hurry past, But that enormous barrier binds it fast." 132 Or compare the four last lines of the concluding stanza with the former half: "... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1824 - 478 pages
...comes — the Cloud — And Mists that spread the flying shroud — And Sunbeams — and the sounding Blast, That, if it could, would hurry past, But that enormous barrier binds it fast. And who but a heaven taught poet could have uttered even these two lines, which we transcribe... | |
| 1826 - 1004 pages
...magnificent range of rocks in Westmoreland. " There is a cove — a huge recess, That keeps till .Tune December's snow, A mighty precipice in front, A silent...finds it fast !" But to see everything in one day is impossible ; so let us away down the Vale on our return to Ambleside. Yet since the ponies have been... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1827 - 418 pages
...Rainbow comes — the Cloud — And Mists that spread the flying shroud ; And Sunbeams ; and the sounding Blast, That, if it could, would hurry past ; But that enormous barrier binds it fast. Not free from boding thoughts, a while The Shepherd stood : then makes his way Towards... | |
| 1828 - 1538 pages
...Echo-cliff was inaccessible. " Hither the rainbow comes, the cloud, And mists that spread the flying shroud, And sunbeams, and the flying blast, That if it could, would hurry past, But that enormous barrier binds it fast." No human eye ever saw the birds within a thousand feet of the lower earth, yet how... | |
| John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 pages
...rainbow comes; the cloud; And mists, that spread the flying shroud; And sun-beams; and the sounding blast, That, if it could, would hurry past:— But that enormous barrier binds it fast. To'wards the dog, o'er rocks and stones, As quickly as he may; Not knowing what to think,... | |
| British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...Hainbow comes — the Cloud— And Mists that spread the flying shroud ; And Sun-beams; and the sounding blast, That, if it could, would hurry past, But that enormous Barrier binds it fast. Not free from boding thoughts, awhile The Shepherd stood : then makes his way Towards... | |
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