 | Leonora Leet - 1999 - 276 pages
...achieve a state of ultimate tranquillity. It is of such a state that the poet Wordsworth also writes: It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time...with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquility; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea: Listen! the mighty Being is awake, And doth... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 2000 - 788 pages
...heartfelt sighs, Among Men who do not love her linger here. 'It is a beauteous Evening, calm and free' It is a beauteous Evening, calm and free; The holy time...heaven 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!... | |
 | Sylvia Townsend Warner - 2001 - 252 pages
...at his hat. If he walked on the beach at sunset repeating to himself that sonnet of Wordsworth's: It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time...tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven is on the sea: long before he had got to: Dear Child! dear Girl! that walkest with me here, he was sure to be interrupted... | |
 | Robert Stockwell, Donka Minkova - 2001 - 224 pages
..."adoration." Wordsworth has a wonderful line in a sonnet about a strikingly beautiful evening: "It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time...is quiet as a Nun, Breathless with adoration." The point is, the root which meant "speak" has come to refer to silent worship, a change brought about... | |
 | Emma Driver - 2001 - 150 pages
...close above us, heavy with snow, or is empty as far as the eye can see ... 1 am in exile here. (17) It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration (BE, 1-2) On clear nights it can be beautiful ... you can see the wolves moving in packs over the snow,... | |
 | Paula R. Feldman, Daniel Robinson - 1999 - 306 pages
...sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. 214. 'It is a beauteous evening, calm and free' 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!... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 2003 - 56 pages
...short visit to France during a break in the war, he shares a quiet moment with Caroline at sunset. It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time...down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea: Listen! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2003 - 356 pages
...seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still! It is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time...broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gendeness of heaven broods o'er the Sea: Listen! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal... | |
 | Christopher Beach - 2003 - 236 pages
...the evening was generally treated as a moment of sublime rapture, as in Wordsworth's famous lines. It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time...with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquility. Eliot is clearly working against this kind of Romantic image, forcing the reader to accept... | |
 | Reuven Tsur - 2003 - 388 pages
...turning the thing-free and Gestalt-free entities into emotionally loaded diffuse information, as in: It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy Time is quiet as a nun, Breathless with adoration... or Oh listen! for the vale profound Is overflowing with the sound. By contrast, when the thing-free... | |
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IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration... 
