 Ah ! then if mine had been the painter's hand To express what then I saw, and add the gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration, and the poet's dream...  Poems - Page 338by William Wordsworth - 1815Full view - About this book
 | 1873 - 778 pages
...that verrso of Wordsworth's from the " Elegiac Stanzas suggested by a picture of Peele Castle :" — "Ah ! then, if mine had been the painter's hand To express what then I saw ; and ADD the gleam, 17ie light tftiit never was on sea or Iaiul, The consecration and Vie poet's drtam!" Well, though those... | |
 | Mary Ann Reynolds Page - 1873 - 226 pages
...except as seen through her eyes, and colored by her imagination and feeling. It is this that adds — " The gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the poet's dream."] December 30. A perfectly lovely day. Yesterday it was rather chilly and cloudy, but it is quite clear... | |
 | 1873 - 808 pages
...amongst the fields and hills; but that he steeps them in an ideal light, that he sheds upon them " the gleam — The light that never was on sea or land ; The consecration and the poet's dream;" and that he makes us feel that wonderful connection between nature and the soul of man, which is indeed... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1873 - 840 pages
...amongst the fields and hills; but that he steeps them in an ideal light, that he sheds upon them " the gleam — The light that never was on sea or land ; The consecration and the poet's dream;" and that he makes us feel that wonderful connection between nature and the soul of man, which is indeed... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1874 - 96 pages
...or brings; 10 I could have fancied that the mighty deep Was even the gentlest of all gentle things. Ah ! then, if mine had been the painter's hand, To express what then I saw, and add the gleam Of lustre known to neither sea or land 1 5 But borrowed from the youthful poet's dream, I would have... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1874 - 396 pages
...the active energy of thought upon it — another thing arises, the poetic picture, the work of Art. Ah ! then, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what then I saw ; aud add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1875 - 374 pages
...and the active energy of thought upon it—another thing arises, the poetic picture, the work of Art. Ah ! then, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To...a sea that could not cease to smile ; On tranquil l;ind, beneath a sky of bliss. Thou sbouldst have seemed a treasure-house divine Of peaceful years... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1875 - 728 pages
...away, or brings : I could have fancied that the mighty Deep Was eveu the gentlest of all gentle Things. Ah! THEN, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To...sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream j I would have planted tbce, thou hoary Pile Amid a world how different from this ! Beside a sea that... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 392 pages
...the mighty Deep Was even the gentlest of all gentle things. Ah ! then if mine had been the jmiuter's hand To express what then I saw; and add the gleam, The light tliat never was on sea or land, Theconsecration, and the poet's dream, — I would have planted thee,... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 828 pages
...away or brings : I could have fancied that the mighty deep Was even the gentlest of all gentle things. ian murmurs flow, And Pythia's awful organ peals below....head ; Shall swell thy heart to rapture unconfined, A picture had it been of lasting case, Elysian quiet without toil or strife ; No motion but the moving... | |
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