 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; I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile Amid a world how different from...  The Windsor Magazine - Page 2451912Full view - About this book
 | Mary Ann Reynolds Page - 1873 - 226 pages
...except as seen through her eyes, and colored by her imagination and feeling. It is this that adds — " The gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the poet's dream."] December 30. A perfectly lovely day. Yesterday it was rather chilly and cloudy, but it is quite clear... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1873 - 840 pages
...amongst the fields and hills; but that he steeps them in an ideal light, that he sheds upon them " the gleam — The light that never was on sea or land ; The consecration and the poet's dream;" and that he makes us feel that wonderful connection between nature and the soul of man, which is indeed... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1874 - 96 pages
...or brings; 10 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 Of lustre known to neither sea or land 1 5 But borrowed from the youthful poet's dream, I would have... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1874 - 396 pages
...the active energy of thought upon it — another thing arises, the poetic picture, the work of Art. Ah ! then, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what then I saw ; aud add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1875 - 728 pages
...away, or brings : I could have fancied that the mighty Deep Was eveu the gentlest of all gentle Things. Ah! THEN, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To...sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream j I would have planted tbce, thou hoary Pile Amid a world how different from this ! Beside a sea that... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1875 - 374 pages
...and the active energy of thought upon it—another thing arises, the poetic picture, the work of Art. Ah ! then, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To...sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream ; I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile, Amid a world how different from this ! Beside a sea that... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 392 pages
...the mighty Deep Was even the gentlest of all gentle things. Ah ! then if mine had been the jmiuter's hand To express what then I saw; and add the gleam, The light tliat never was on sea or land, Theconsecration, and the poet's dream, — I would have planted thee,... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 828 pages
...away or brings : I could have fancied that the mighty deep Was even the gentlest of all gentle things. ian murmurs flow, And Pythia's awful organ peals below....halo on thy beauteous head ; Shall swell thy heart — I would have planted thee, thou hoary pile, Amid a world how different from this ! Beside a sea... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1876 - 562 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...and add the gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The con secretion, and the poet's dream, — I would have planted thee, thou hoary pile, Amid... | |
 | 1876 - 508 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 gleain, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration, and the poet's dream, — I would... | |
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