 | Samuel Longfellow - 1853 - 228 psl.
...— 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 psl.
...— 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 - 234 psl.
...sun Is sinking 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...thunder — everlastingly. Dear Child ! dear Girl, that standest with me here ! If thou appear untouch'd with serious thought, Thy nature is not therefore... | |
 | Anna U. Russell - 1853 - 580 psl.
...influence, a personification of unending duration, uttering aloud the oracles of primeval truth. " Listen ! the mighty being is awake, And doth with...motion make A sound like thunder, everlastingly." Where are the myriads of men who have trodden its shores, and gone down to it in ships? They are passed... | |
 | William S. Forrest - 1853 - 498 psl.
...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... | |
 | William S. Forrest - 1853 - 522 psl.
...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... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - 1854 - 592 psl.
...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...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 bosom... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - 1854 - 584 psl.
...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,... | |
 | 1854 - 500 psl.
...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 psl.
...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... | |
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IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration... 
