 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...  The Blodgett Readers by Grades - Page 94by Frances Eggleston Blodgett, Andrew Burr Blodgett - 1910Full view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1857 - 334 pages
...sight that heavenly face restore. WRITTEN AT SUNRISE ON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE. EARTH has not any thing to show more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could...the morning ; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky ; All bright and glittering in the smokeless... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1857 - 480 pages
...Nature, even in the commonest matters. XXVI. COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE.* EARTH has not any thing to show more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could...the morning ; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky ; All bright and glittering in the smokeless... | |
 | 1857 - 336 pages
...repose which he has given in his famous sonnet on Westminster Bridge : — " Earth has not any thing to show more fair. Dull would he be of soul who could...of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky, All bright and glittering in the smokeless... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1857 - 428 pages
...EARTH hath not any thing to show more fair ; Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight BO touching in its majesty; This city now doth like a...the morning ; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky, All bright and glittering in the smokeless... | |
 | 1864 - 492 pages
...favourite sister, at four o'clock : — "SONNET COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE, SEPT. 3, 1803. " Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching ia its majesty. This city doth like a garment wear The beauty of... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Bookbinding - 1858 - 550 pages
...The officious touch that makes me droop again. COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE, SEPT. 3, 1803. EARTH has not anything to show more fair : Dull would he...the morning ; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky, All bright and glittering in the smokeless... | |
 | George Measom - Kent (England) - 1858 - 358 pages
...never yet beheld. Gazing upon this scene at sunrise, we may exclaim with Wordsworth ; — *' Earth has not anything to show more fair. Dull would he...the morning : silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky, All bright and glittering in the smoketeeB... | |
 | WILLIAM WORDSWOTH - 1858 - 564 pages
...officious touch that makes me droop again. COMPOSED CPOH WISTMIirSIER KRIDGE, sIPT. 3, 1803. EAIl'TH has not anything to show more fair : Dull would he...the morning ; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky, All bright and glittering in the smokeless... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - Theology - 1858 - 516 pages
...a specimen or two. "COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE, SEPTEMBER 3, 1803. " Earth has not any thing to show more fair : Dull would he be of soul, who...the morning ; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky ; All bright and glittering in the smokeless... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pages
...has been, And never more will be. WRITTEN AT SUNRISE ON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE. Earth has not any thing to show more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could...the morning ; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky ; All bright and glittering in the smokeless... | |
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