 | Arminianism - 1850 - 698 pages
...desolation toward the genial prime ; — Or with the moon conquering earth's misty air, And rilling more and more with crystal light As pensive evening deepens into night. We must limit ourselves to one more sonnet. Passing by many of wellknown excellence, because they are... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 412 pages
...welcome Snowdrop I compare ; That Child of Winter, prompting thoughts that climb From desolation tow'rds the genial prime ; Or with the Moon conquering earth's...crystal light As pensive Evening deepens into night. Q 6 XLIV. IN my mind's eye a Temple, like a cloud Slowly surmounting some invidious hill, Rose out... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Sonnets, English - 1899 - 308 pages
...And head that droops because the soul is meek, Thee with the welcome Snowdrop I compare ; Thatchild of winter, prompting thoughts that climb From desolation...crystal light As pensive Evening deepens into night. ROTHA, my Spiritual Child ! this head was grey To Rotha When at the sacred font for thee I stood ;... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1832 - 402 pages
...YEAR. SUCH age how beautiful! O Lady bright, Whose mortal lineaments seem all refined By favouring Nature and a saintly Mind To something purer and more...crystal light As pensive Evening deepens into night. * The River Rotha, that flows into Windermere from the Lake* of Grasmere and RydaL XLIV. A GRAVE-STONE... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1859 - 672 pages
...Travels in London. (Miscellanies, II. 222.) j Saint-Marc Girardin, Cours do Lit. dram., III. 121 «?. Than flesh and blood ; whene'er thou meet'st my sight,...crystal light As pensive evening deepens into night.* Such night, however, as the same poet pictures in another poem — the closing stanza of which promises... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1837 - 376 pages
...exquisite Than flesh and blood ; whene'er thou meet'st my sight, When I behold thy blanched uiiwithered cheek, Thy temples fringed with locks of gleaming...crystal light As pensive Evening deepens into night XLVI. TO HOTHA ftROTHA, my Spiritual Child ! this head was grey When at the sacred font for thee I... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...Mind To something purer and more exquisite [sight, Than flesh and blood ; whene'er thou meet'st my When I behold thy blanched unwithered cheek, Thy temples...crystal light As pensive Evening deepens into night. ro ROTHA Q . ROTH A, my Spiritual Child ! this head was grey When at the sacred font for thee I stood... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Authors' presentation copies - 1845 - 688 pages
...[sight, Than flesh and blood ; whene'er thou meet'st my When I behold thy blanched unwithered check, Thy temples fringed with locks of gleaming white,...crystal light As pensive Evening deepens into night. то ROTIIA o, . ROTHA, my Spiritual Child ! this head was grey When at the sacred font for thee I... | |
 | John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1848 - 266 pages
...strength, so that the balanced glory of the creature continues in solemn interchange, perhaps even " Filling more and more with crystal light, As pensive evening deepens into night." Hitherto, however, we have confined ourselves to the examination of ideal form in the lower animals,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1851 - 748 pages
...meek, Thee with the welcome Snowdrop I compare; That Child of Winter, prompting thought* that cliruo @a , XLIV. A GRAVE-STONE UPON THE FLOOR IN THE CLOISTERS OP WORCESTER CATHEDRAL. " MISERRIMUS !" and neither... | |
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Such age how beautiful ! O Lady bright, Whose mortal lineaments seem all refined By favouring Nature and a saintly Mind To something purer and more exquisite Than flesh and blood ; whene'er thou meet'st my sight, When I behold thy blanched unwithered... 
