 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1856 - 556 psl.
...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 psl.
...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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1857 - 480 psl.
...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... | |
 | Dauntless - 1858 - 286 psl.
...to her like Medusa's head. So they went to bed, all rather sobered down and tranquil. CHAPTER II. It is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time...the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity. WOBDSWOBTH. TT was scarcely to be expected that the lustre '*- of that evening should continue to shine... | |
 | 1859 - 802 psl.
...which 13 displayed bis graceful, meditative, and sympathetic mind. A SWEET SONNET. " It is a be:uitfOU3 evening, calm and free ; The holy time is quiet as...with adoration ; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquility ; Tlie gentleness of heavou is on the sea ; Listen! the mighty being is awake, And doth... | |
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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 broods o'er the Sea: Listen! 
