| Samuel Longfellow - 1853 - 228 pàgines
...— I stood upon the sands, alone. SAMUEL LONGFELLOW. SONNET. A FAIRER face of evening cannot be : 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 : But list ! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with... | |
| Mary Botham Howitt - 1854 - 584 pàgines
...Fairy, and the flowers Hang down their heavy heads in grief for her. BESSIE AN EVENING BY THE SEA. It is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time...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... | |
| Mary Botham Howitt - 1854 - 592 pàgines
...in grief for her. BESSIE PARKES. AN EVENING BY THE SEA. It is a beauteous evening, calm and free j The holy 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 mighty Being is awake, And doth with his... | |
| 1854 - 500 pàgines
...Love! A remarkable and sublime specimen of the Combinative we have in one of his sonnets : — " It is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time...the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of Leaven broods o'er the sea. Listen ; the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his... | |
| Edwin Paxton Hood - 1856 - 556 pàgines
...the speech to the thought. Let the reader again and again revolve these most affecting images, " It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a Nim, breathless with adoration." " The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up gathered... | |
| Edwin Paxton Hood - 1856 - 590 pàgines
...51 speech to the thought. Let the reader again and again revolve these most affecting images, " It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet a, a Nun, breathieu with adoration." " The wituh that will be howling at all hours, And are up gathered... | |
| Henry Reed - 1857 - 424 pàgines
...would pass unheeded. The following may be taken after little more than a moment's selection : — " It is a beauteous evening, calm and free : The holy time...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... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1857 - 480 pàgines
...so tall." t The allusion is probably to his brother who was lost by shipwreck in February, 1805. IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time...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... | |
| Dauntless - 1858 - 286 pàgines
...to her like Medusa's head. So they went to bed, all rather sobered down and tranquil. CHAPTER II. It is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time...the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity. WOBDSWOBTH. TT was scarcely to be expected that the lustre '*- of that evening should continue to shine... | |
| WILLIAM WORDSWOTH - 1858 - 564 pàgines
...more ; That neither present time, nor years unborn, Could to my sight that heavenly face restore. IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time...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... | |
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