 Sits on the horizon round, a settled gloom, — Not such as wintry storms on mortals shed, Oppressing life, but lovely, gentle, kind, And full of every hope and every joy, The wish of Nature. Gradual sinks the breeze Into a perfect calm, that not a breath...  The Works of Alexander Pope: Poetry - Page 247by Alexander Pope - 1871Full view - About this book
 | James Thomson - 1793 - 300 pages
...every joy, The wifh of Nature. Gradual sinks the breeze Into a perfect calm ; that not a breath 155 Is heard to quiver through the closing woods, Or rustling turn the many-twinkling leaves Of aspin tall. Th' uncurling floods, diffus'd In glassy breadth, seem thro' delusive lapse Forgetful of... | |
 | James Thomson - 1800 - 302 pages
...every hope and every joy , The wish of Nature. Gradual sinks the breeze Into a perfect calm ; that not a breath Is heard to quiver through the closing...woods , Or rustling turn the many-twinkling leaves. Of aspin tall. Th'uncurling floods , difFus'd In glassy breadth , seem thro' delusive lapse Forgetful... | |
 | James Thomson - English poetry - 1802 - 320 pages
...of ev'ry hope and ev'ry joy, The wish of nature. Gradual sinks the breeze Into a perfect calm; that not a breath Is heard to quiver through the closing...woods, Or rustling turn the many-twinkling leaves Of aspin tall. Th' uncurling floods, diffus'd In glassy breadth, seem through delusive lapse Forgetful... | |
 | James Thomson - 1806 - 242 pages
...every joy, The wish of nature. Gradual sinks the breeze Into a perfect calm; that not a breath 155 Is heard to quiver through the closing woods, Or rustling turn the many-twinkling leaves Of aspin tall. Th'uncurling floods, diffus'd In glassy breadth, seem thro' delusive lapse Forgetful of... | |
 | James Thomson - 1813 - 346 pages
...every joy, The wish of Nature. Gradual sinks the breeze Into a perfect calm; that not a breath 155 Is heard to quiver through the closing woods, Or rustling turn the many-twinkling leaves Of aspin tall. Th' uncurling floods, diffus'd In glassy breadth, seem through delusive lapse Forgetful... | |
 | James Thomson, Dr. Johnson - Laziness - 1818 - 316 pages
...of every hope and every joy, The wish of Nature. Gradual sinks the breeze Into a perfect calm ; that not a breath Is heard to quiver through the closing...woods* Or rustling turn the many-twinkling leaves Of aspin tall. Th' uncurling floods, diftus'd In glassy breadth, seem through delusive lapse Forgetful... | |
 | James Thomson - 1822 - 174 pages
...of every hope and every joy, The wish of Nature. Gradual sinks the breeze Into a perfect calm ; that not a breath Is heard to quiver through the closing...turn the many-twinkling leaves Of aspen tall. The' uncurling floods, diffused In glassy breadth, seem through delusive lapse Forgetful of their coarse.... | |
 | Thomas Gosden - 1822 - 80 pages
...herbage. Such a one is thus described by THOMSON — Gradual sinks the breeze I nto a perfect calm ; that not a breath Is heard to quiver through the closing...rustling turn the many-twinkling leaves Of aspen tall, At last The clouds aonsign then treasures to the fields; And lofty shaking on the dimpled pool Prelusive... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 pages
...of every hope and every joy, The wish of Nature. Gradual sinks the breeze Into a perfect calm; that not a breath Is heard to quiver through the closing...woods, Or rustling turn the many-twinkling leaves Of aspin tall. The' uncurling floods, diffused In glassy breadth, seem through delusive lapse Forgetful... | |
 | Elizabeth Kent (botanist.) - 1825 - 466 pages
...Aspen trees, till they tremble all over." T. MOORE. Thomson says, in describing " A perfect calm ; that not a breath Is heard to quiver through the closing...woods, Or rustling turn the many-twinkling leaves J0f Aspen tall." It may one day be discovered by some poetic woodman that the Aspen was formerly a... | |
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