 | William S. Forrest - 1853 - 522 pages
...scene is thus fitly described by one of the poets. " It is a beauteous evening, calm and free. * » * * The broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the sea." The " expansive forehead" of the great source of light and heat, sank quietly... | |
 | William S. Forrest - 1853 - 498 pages
...is thus fitly described by one of the poets. 1 ' It is a beauteous evening, calm and free. * * * * The broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the sea." The " expansive forehead" of the great source of light and heat, sank quietly... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - 1854 - 584 pages
...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...thunder — everlastingly. Dear child ! dear girl ! thnt walkest with me here, If thou appear'st untouch'd by solemn thought, Thy nature is not, therefore,... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - 1854 - 592 pages
...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...child ! dear girl ! that walkest with me here, If thou appear'st untouch'd by solemn thought, Thy nature ia not, therefore, less divine ; Thou liest in Abraham's... | |
 | 1854 - 500 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1855 - 922 pages
...language of which we are comparatively ignorant, and by symbols only a few of which we can decipher. ' The gentleness of heaven is on the sea ; Listen !...motion make A sound like thunder — everlastingly.' Science, however, is daily, by little added to little, discovering more and more of the secrets of... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1856 - 556 pages
...the speech to the thought. Let the reader again and again revolve these most affecting images, " It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a Nim, breathless with adoration." " The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up gathered... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1856 - 590 pages
...51 speech to the thought. Let the reader again and again revolve these most affecting images, " It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet a, a Nun, breathieu with adoration." " The wituh that will be howling at all hours, And are up gathered... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 424 pages
...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...child ! dear girl ! that walkest with me here, If thou appear'st untouch'd by solemn thought, Thy nature is not therefore less divine : Thou liest in Abraham's... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1857 - 480 pages
...so tall." t The allusion is probably to his brother who was lost by shipwreck in February, 1805. 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... | |
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It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven is on the Sea: Listen! 
