 Upon the glassy plain; and oftentimes, When we had given our bodies to the wind, And all the shadowy banks on either side Came sweeping through the darkness, spinning still The rapid line of motion, then at once Have I, reclining back upon my heels, Stopped...  Poems - Page 47by William Wordsworth - 1815Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Ethics - 1812 - 466 pages
...my heels Stopp'd short, yet still the solitary Cliffs Wheel'd by me even as if the earth had roll'd With visible motion her diurnal round! Behind me did...solemn train Feebler and feebler, and I stood and watch'd Till all was tranquil as a summer sea. GErrata. No. 18. p. 274, 1. 13, for Wanderers, read... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 438 pages
...either side Came, sweeping through the darkness, spinning still The rapid line of motion, then at once Have I, reclining back upon my heels, Stopped short...as if the earth had rolled With visible motion her diurual round! Behind me did they stretch in solemn train, Feebler and feebler, and I stood and watched... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1824 - 514 pages
...either side Came sweeping through the darkness spinning still The rapid line of motion, then at once Have I, reclining back upon my heels, Stopped short...and watched Till all was tranquil as a summer sea. WORDS WORTH. As a contrast to this fine Northern winter-piece, our readers may take the following account... | |
 | Periodicals - 1825 - 500 pages
...through ttie darkness, spinning still Tlie rapid line of moti in, then at once Have I, reclining hack upon my heels, Stopped short ; yet still the solitary...stretch in solemn train, Feebler and feebler, and 1 stood and watched Till all was tranquil as a summer sea." It is not our intention to obtrude upon... | |
 | William Hone - Calendars - 1827 - 858 pages
...motion, then at once Hare I, reclining back upon my heels. Stopped short ; yet still the «olilary cliffs Wheeled by me even as if the earth had rolled...stretch in solemn train Feebler and feebler, and I stood watched Till all was tranquil as a summer sea. H'wJtwortk. ¿»bating. The earliest notice of skating... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 418 pages
...heels, Stopp'd short; yet still the solitary cliffs Wheel'd by me — even as if the earth had roll'd With visible motion her diurnal round ! Behind me...solemn train, Feebler and feebler, and I stood and watch'd Till all was tranquil as a summer sea. XV. THE LONGEST DAY; ADDRESSED TO LET us quit the leafy... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...the darkness, spinning still The rapid line of motion, then at once ' Have I, reclining hack upon ray heels, Stopped short ; yet still the solitary cliffs...and watched Till all was tranquil as a summer sea. THE ECLIPSE OF THE SUN, 1821. HIGH on her speculative tower Stood Science waiting for the hour When... | |
 | William Hone - Days - 1830 - 868 pages
...still The rapid line of motion, then at once Have I, reclining back upon my heels, Stopped lihort ; yet still the solitary cliffs Wheeled by me even as...and watched Till all was tranquil as a summer sea. Wordsworth. The earliest notice of skating in England is obtained from the earliest description of... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1832 - 402 pages
...either side Came sweeping through the darkness, spinning still The rapid line of motion, then at once Have I, reclining back upon my heels, Stopped short...and watched Till all was tranquil as a summer sea. XV. THE LONGEST DAY. ADDRESSED TO . LET us quit the leafy Arbour, And the torrent murmuring by : Sol... | |
 | William Hone - Days - 1837 - 874 pages
...either side Came sweeping through the darkness, shunning still The rapid line of motion, then at once Have I, reclining back upon my heels, Stopped short...feebler, and I stood and watched Till all was tranquil as n summer sea. Wardswurlh. The earliest notice of skating in England is obtained from the earliest description... | |
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