 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 Open...  Text-book of Poetry: From Wordsworth, Coleridge, Burns, Beattie, Goldsmith ... - Page 79by Henry Norman Hudson - 1875 - 694 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Gaspey - 1851 - 496 pages
...Westminster Bridge. It presents a most striking contrast to the noise and turmoil of the capital by day. " Earth has not any thing to show more fair ; Dull would...steep In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill j Ne'er saw I, never felt a calm so deep ! The river glideth at his own sweet will : Dear God ! the... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 pages
...Protcns coming from the sea, Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. LONDON.1 Earth has not anything to show more fair; Dull would he be of soul who could...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... | |
 | Edward Litt L. Blanchard - 1851 - 324 pages
...be of soul who could pass by A sight 80 touching in its mnjeaty; This city now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning ; silent, bare, Ships,...never felt- — a calm so deep, The river glideth at its own sweet will. Dear God 1 the very houses seem asleep, And all that mighty heart is lying still."... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1851 - 748 pages
...bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky ; All blight d; Contented ; And all that mighty heart is lying still 1 XXVII. OXFORD, MAY 30. 1820. YE sacred Nurseries of blooming... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 pages
...bare. Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie j Open unto the fields, and to the sky, — j 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 ! The world is too much with us. The world is too much with... | |
 | 1853 - 792 pages
...spot the following beautilul lines of the late poet laureate : — " Earth has not anything to shew more fair. Dull would he be of soul who could pass...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 - 1853 - 352 pages
...— " Earth has not anything to show more fair ; Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A eight so touching in its majesty : This city now doth like...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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1854 - 776 pages
...Nor they from it : their fellowship is secure. XXVI. COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE, SEPT. 3, 1803. EARTH has not any thing to show more fair : Dull would...sweet will : Dear God ! the very houses seem asleep ; And all that mighty heart is lying still ! WORDSWORTH'S POETICAL WORKS. xxvn. OXFORD, MAY 30, 1820.... | |
 | Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 pages
...he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty! This city now doth Eke a garment wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships,...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.... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1854 - 432 pages
...SEPT. 3, 1802. 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...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... | |
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