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... Christian Examiner and Theological Review - Page 3971846Full 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 - English poetry - 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, 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 - 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 - English poetry - 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 - Sonnets, English - 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
...soon we shall be swept away, while the surges will continue to beat on that very spot, and the cliffs and the skies will still lean over to hear. This is...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... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 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... | |
| Robert Walsh - Serial publications - 1836 - 530 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 sound like thunder—everlastingly. Dear child ! dear girl! that walkest with me here, If thou appear'st untouched... | |
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