 | William Keddie - Literature - 1854 - 400 pages
...Wordsworth, aa he took his station, at early dawn, on Westminster Bridge, and saw " The City, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships,...smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his tirst splendour, valley, rock, or hill ; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep ! The river glideth... | |
 | John Timbs - Curiosities and wonders - 1855 - 818 pages
...Bridge, September 3, 1803, Wordsworth i posed this majestic sonnet : Earth has not any thing to shew more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass...and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun mire beautifully steep In his first splendour valley, rock, or hill; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1855 - 632 pages
...silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theaters, and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky — All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never...sweet will : Dear God ! the very houses seem asleep ; And all that mighty heart is lying still ! After such instances as are here given of the higher and... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1855 - 590 pages
...domes, theaters, and temples He Open unto the fields and to the sky — • All bright and glittering iu the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully...sweet will : Dear God ! the very houses seem asleep ; And all that mighty heart is lying still I After such instances as are here given of the higher and... | |
 | Cheshire (England) - 1855 - 712 pages
...be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty : The city now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning : silent, bare —...Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill ; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep ! The river glideth at his... | |
 | Anne Bowman - 1856 - 316 pages
...That land thy country, and that spot thy home. J. MONTGOMERY. SUNRISE ON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE. EARTH has not anything to show more fair : Dull would he...Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill ; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep ! The river glideth at his... | |
 | 1852 - 1238 pages
...Hear him : — " Earth has not anything to show more fair. Dull would be be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty ! This city now...Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour valleys, rock, or hill ; Ne'er saw I — never felt — a calm so deep '. " So let us not... | |
 | Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - Cheshire (England) - 1856 - 360 pages
...could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: The city now doth like a garment wear The beanty of the morning : silent, bare — Ships, towers, domes,...Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill ; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep ! The river glideth at his... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1857 - 394 pages
...corn before his sickle fell Among the jocund reapers. SONNET COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE. Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he...Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his... | |
 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 1857 - 424 pages
...find, we think, an echo to them in the following specimen of the metre of the sonnet : — " Earth has not anything to show more fair : Dull would he...Never did sun more beautifully steep, In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill ; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep ! The river glideth at his... | |
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EARTH has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie Open... 
