 | James Montgomery - 1833 - 324 pages
...The winds, that will be howling at all hours And are up-gather'd now, like sleeping flowert." " It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a mm. Breathless with adoration l" " F.lmocrt laugh before thee in their beds, And fragrance in thy footing... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1836
...would pass unheeded. The following may be taken after little more than a moment's selection :— " It is a beauteous evening, calm and free; The holy time...is on the sea: Listen ! the mighty Being is awake, And doth, with his eternal motion, make A sound like thunder—everlastingly. Dear child ! dear girl!... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1836
...would pass unheeded. The following may be taken after little more than a moment's selection :— " It is a beauteous evening, calm and free; The holy time...The gentleness of heaven is on the sea: Listen ! the ruighty Being is awake, And doth, with his eternal motion, make A sound like thunder—everlastingly.... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1837
...as, through that power, it ceased to mourn. XXX. AIR sleeps, — from strife or stir the clouds are free ; The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless...down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea : But list ! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 1837
...and free — The holy time as quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration — the broad sun Is kinking down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven is on the sea." But its gentleness passes away, even while he is sleeping! — his dreams are of home and happiness... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1838
...in his hand The Thing became a trumpet, whenee he blew Soul-animating strains, — alas, too few. IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time...the sea ; Listen ! — the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder — everlastingly. Dear child ! dear girl... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1838
...he hlew Soul-animating strains, — alas, too few. 1T 1S A BKAUTŁOUS LvtN1.Nti. IT is a heauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time is quiet as...on the sea ; Listen !— the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder — everlastingly. Dear child ! dear girl... | |
 | Thomas Browne Browne - 1838 - 255 pages
...sonnet! The rest is scarcely so good, but no part of it is in the " language really used by men." " It is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time...tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven is on the sea." There is nothing in inanimate nature so pathetic as the sea at sun-set in complete repose. No one,... | |
 | Mrs. S. C. Hall - 1838
...beneath him, still — the sky above him, clear. " The evening, calm and free — The holy time as quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration — the broad...tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven is on the sea." But its gentleness passes away, even while he is sleeping ! — his dreams are of home and happiness... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1838 - 324 pages
...The winds, that will be howling at all hours And are up-gather'd now, like sleeping flmecri." " It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a mm, Breathless with adoration /" " Flowers laugh before thee in their beds, And fragrance in thy footing... | |
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