 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...  A New Library of Poetry and Song - Page 626edited by - 1877 - 934 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Book - English poetry - 1847 - 206 pages
...wreathed horn. WORDSWORTH. WRITTEN AT SUNRISE ON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE. EARTH has not any thing to shew more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could pass...the morning : silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky, All bright and glittering in the smokeless... | |
 | Book - English poetry - 1847 - 216 pages
...wreathed horn. WORDSWORTH. WRITTEN AT SUNRISE ON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE. EARTH has not any thing to shew more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could pass...the morning : silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky, All bright and glittering in the smokeless... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 768 pages
...Have sight of Proteus coming from the sea, Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. LONDON.i Earth has not anything to show more fair; Dull would he...of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky, All bright and glittering in the smokeless... | |
 | William Gaspey - London (England) - 1851 - 496 pages
...a most striking contrast to the noise and turmoil of the capital by day. " Earth has not any thing to show more fair ; Dull would he be of soul who could...the morning ; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky ; All bright and glittering in the smokeless... | |
 | 1851 - 492 pages
...exquisite sonnet was composed upon Westminster Bridge, September the 3rd, 1803:— Earth has not any thing to show more fair ; Dull would he be of soul, who...the morning ; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples, lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky ; All bright and glittering in the... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...God being with thee when we know it not. Composed upon Westminster Bridge. Earth has not any thing to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could...of the morning; silent, bare. Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie j Open unto the fields, and to the sky, — j All bright and glittering in... | |
 | Sarah Carter Edgarton Mayo - American poetry - 1853 - 346 pages
...of London ? It is in Wordsworth's sonnet, written on Westminster Bridge, at early morning: " Earth has not anything to show more fair : Dull would he...the morning ; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky, All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.... | |
 | 1853 - 792 pages
...spot the following beautilul lines of the late poet laureate : — " Earth has not anything to shew more fair. Dull would he be of soul who could pass...morning, — silent, bare ; Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples, lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky, All bright and glittering in the smokeless... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1855 - 590 pages
...where, the " mighty heart" of humanity is beating silently in many a slumbering homestead : — Earth has not anything to show more fair. Dull would he...bare. Ships, towers, domes, theaters, and temples He Open unto the fields and to the sky — • All bright and glittering iu the smokeless air. Never... | |
 | 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...the morning ; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples, lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky, All bright and glittering in the smokeless... | |
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