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 China magazine: a ... miscellany - Page 1301868Full view - About this book
| William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1807 - 358 pages
...time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration ; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven is on the Sea : Listen !...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... | |
| 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 - English literature - 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,... | |
| Robert Walsh - Serial publications - 1836 - 530 pages
...time is quiet as a nun, Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven is on the sea: Listen ! the...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... | |
| Robert Walsh - Serial publications - 1836 - 522 pages
...Is sinking down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven is on the sea: Listen ! the ruighty 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... | |
| 1839 - 538 pages
...sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea : But list ! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal...like thunder — everlastingly. Dear Child ! dear happy Girl ! if thou appear Heedless — untouched with awe or serious thought, Thy nature is not therefore... | |
| Methodist Episcopal Church - 1857 - 830 pages
...the brood sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven is on the sea. Listen I the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal...thunder — everlastingly. Dear child ! dear girl 1 that walkest with me here, If then appear'st untouched by solemn thought. Thy nature is not, therefore,... | |
| A Montagu Woodford - 1841 - 320 pages
...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... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...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...A sound like thunder — everlastingly. Dear Child l dear Girl ! that walkest with me here, If thou appear untouched by solemn thought, Thy nature is... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...sun Is sinking down in it« tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven brood's o'er the sea : But list! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal...like thunder — everlastingly. Dear child ! dear happy girl ! if thou appear Heedless — untouch'd with awe or serious thought, Thy nature is not therefore... | |
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