 | William Wordsworth - 1866 - 508 pages
...tarrying; where she comes the winds must stir: On went she, — and due north her journey took. IT is R beauteous evening, calm and free; The holy time is...child ! dear girl ! that walkest with me here, If thou appear'st untouched by solemn thought, Thy nature is not therefore less divine : Thou liest " in Abraham's... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - English poetry - 1866 - 574 pages
...comfort, and command ; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of an angel-light. BY THE SEA. TT is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time...motion make A sound like thunder — everlastingly. Samucl Sfaglor (Holcribgc. RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER. IN SEVEN PARTS. PART I. AN Ancient JT is an... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1866 - 408 pages
...mother of fresh thoughts and joyous health! A CALM EVKMMi. IT is a beautuuus Evening, ralm and frce : The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration...motion make A sound like thunder — everlastingly. 208 Dear Child ! dear Girl ! that walkest with me here, If thou appear'st untouched by solemn thought,... | |
 | Masson - Poetry - 1995 - 228 pages
...grant a time When good may have, as well as bad, their prime. WILLIAM DRUMMOND It is a beauteous 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... | |
 | Warren Stevenson - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 166 pages
...visit across the Channel to Annette and her and Wordsworth's daughter, Anne-Caroline, beginning: 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... | |
 | Jan Karon - Fiction - 1996 - 468 pages
...adoration; 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...eternal motion make A sound like thunder, everlastingly. The dog appeared to listen with deep interest. And when the rector finished reading the poem Wordsworth... | |
 | Marion Montgomery - Literary Collections - 1997 - 296 pages
...counterpoint to a Wordsworthian metaphor. On the beach at Calais, Wordsworth characterizes evening also. It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration. Prufrock promises himself just such a stroll along a beach, incidentally, though we know by his own... | |
 | David Bromwich - History - 2000 - 204 pages
...Caroline, which reminds him of the vast gulf fixed between his thoughtful life and her innocent one — Listen! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his...motion make A sound like thunder — everlastingly — offers the same consolation that nature does in a poem of another absence; a loss effected by the... | |
 | Paula R. Feldman, Daniel Robinson - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 302 pages
...Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. (1807) 214. 'It is a beauteous evening, calm and free' It is a beauteous evening, calm and free; The holy time...Child! dear Girl! that walkest with me here, If thou appear'st untouched by solemn thought, Thy nature is not therefore less divine: Thou liest in Abraham's... | |
 | Lance St. John Butler - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 230 pages
...chaste religious calm. As all this implies, evening is a good time for God, as Wordsworth knew: It is a beauteous evening, calm and free; The holy time...is on the Sea: Listen! The mighty Being is awake... The god is a god of Nature, but the quasi-Christian metaphor is clear: evening is female, quiet, adoring... | |
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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! 
