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... Three Hundred English Sonnets - Page 136edited by - 1886 - 320 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Wordsworth - 1807 - 180 pages
...me droop again. 13. COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE, Sept. 3, 1803. Earth has not any thing to shew more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in it's majesty : This City now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships,... | |
| Capel Lofft - 1813 - 270 pages
...LONDON. BY THE SAME. COMPCS'D UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE HI SEPT. MDCCCIII. EARTH has not any thin;; to shew more fair*, Dull would he be of Soul who could pass by A i.ight '.xi touching in its majesty. This tl'I'V now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the Morning... | |
| 1837 - 540 pages
...more deeply than I did at the hour, of which I am now writing : ' Silent, bare Ships, towers, domrs, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields and...the sky ! All bright and glittering in the smokeless air ;' — and then, when I came to the two last lines, my eyes filled with tears, and my voice faltered,... | |
| 1826 - 396 pages
...that too often lie too deep for tears." SONNET COMPOSED ON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE. A sight so touching m its majesty : This city now doth like a garment wear...the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully sleep In his first splendour valley, rock, or hill ; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep ! The... | |
| Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1826 - 550 pages
...me at thy farewell, joyous bark ! COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE. Earth has not any thing to shew more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty : The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, This city now doth like a garment wear Ships, towers, domes,... | |
| Henry Stebbing - 1832 - 858 pages
...[WORDSWORTH.] EARTH has not any thing to shew more fair. Dull would he he of soul who could pass hy A sight so touching in its majesty. This city now doth like a garment wear The heauty of the morning- silent, hare Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto... | |
| Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 pages
...Roman peasants build their huts Or on the ruins of the Capitol. j. Montgomery. LONDON AT SUNRISE. EARTH has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by This city now doth like a garment wear A sight so touching in its majesty: The beauty... | |
| Thomas Moule - 1834 - 382 pages
...has been well described by Mr. Wordsworth in the following sonnet. Earth has not any thing to shew more fair : Dull would he 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, Ships, towers, domes,... | |
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