 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1851 - 434 էջ
...combination of the most powerful and intense meditation with the utmost sweetness of feeling. " It is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time...tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven is on the sea ; Listen ! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder —... | |
 | 1851 - 778 էջ
...disappointed. Well, Jonathan, what more have you jotted down ? SLJNQSBY resumes his reading : — " ' It is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time...down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the sea,' as we step ashore at Glenfalloch. The moon shines out with a mild lustre, replacing... | |
 | 1851 - 608 էջ
...meant to advocate, let us be contented with the following beautiful and highly meditative sonnet : " It is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time...with adoration ; the broad sun Is sinking down in tranquillity ; The gentleness of Ьеатеп is on the sea. Listen 1 the mighty Being is awake, And... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 էջ
...became a trumpet, whence he blew Soul-animating strains, — alas, too few. 230 231 It ia a beauteous Evening. It is a beauteous evening, calm and free...tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven is on the sea; Listen! • — the mighty Being is awake. And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder... | |
 | John Wright - 1853 - 142 էջ
...the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the sea : Listen ! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with...Child ! dear Girl ! that walkest with me here, If thou appear untouched by solemn thought Thy nature is not therefore less divine : Thou liest in Abraham's... | |
 | Samuel Longfellow - 1853 - 228 էջ
...— I stood upon the sands, alone. SAMUEL LONGFELLOW. SONNET. A FAIRER face of evening cannot be : The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration...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... | |
 | Samuel Longfellow - 1853 - 228 էջ
...— I stood upon the sands, alone. SAMUEL LONGFELLOW. SONNET. A FAIRER face of evening cannot be : The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration...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... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - 1854 - 584 էջ
...Fairy, and the flowers Hang down their heavy heads in grief for her. BESSIE AN EVENING BY THE SEA. It is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time...tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven is on the sea ; Listen ! — the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - 1854 - 592 էջ
...in grief for her. BESSIE PARKES. AN EVENING BY THE SEA. It is a beauteous evening, calm and free j The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration...tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven is on the sea ; Listen ! — the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder... | |
 | 1854 - 500 էջ
...Love! A remarkable and sublime specimen of the Combinative we have in one of his sonnets : — " It is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time...sinking down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of Leaven broods o'er the sea. Listen ; the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make... | |
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The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea: Listen! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder— everlastingly. Dear Child! dear Girl! that walkest with me here, If thou appear untouched by solemn thought,... 
