 Sits on the horizon round a settled gloom : Not such as wintry storms on mortals shed, Oppressing life ; but lovely, gentle, kind, And full of every hope and every joy, The wish of nature. Gradual sinks the breeze Into a perfect calm ; that not a breath...  The Saturday Magazine - Page 1501844Full view - About this book
 | James Thomson - 1880 - 548 pages
...Oppressing life ; but lovely, gentle, kind, And full of every hope and every joy, The wish of Nature. Gradual sinks the breeze Into a perfect calm ; that...rustling turn the many twinkling leaves Of aspen tall. The uncurling floods, diffused In glassy breadth, seem through delusive lapse Forgetful of their course.... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 636 pages
...Oppressing life ; but lovely, gentle, kind, And full of every hope and every joy, The wish of Nature. Gradual sinks the breeze Into a perfect calm ; that...rustling turn the many twinkling leaves Of aspen tall. The uncurling floods, diffused In glassy breadth, seem through delusive lapse Forgetful of their course.... | |
 | Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...Oppressing life ; but lovely, gentle, kind, And full of every hope and every joy, The wish of Nature. Gradual sinks the breeze Into a perfect calm, that...quiver through the closing woods, Or rustling turn the many-twinkling leaves Of aspen tall. The uncurling floods, diffused [lapse In glassy breadth, seem... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1881 - 632 pages
...Oppressing life ; but lovely, gentle, kind, And full of every hope and every joy, The wish of Nature. Gradual sinks the breeze Into a perfect calm ; that...rustling turn the many twinkling leaves Of aspen tall. The uncurling floods, diffused In glassy breadth, seem through delusive lapse Forgetful of their course.... | |
 | James Thomson - 1881 - 502 pages
...gentle, kind, And full of every hope and every joy, The wish of Nature. Gradual sinks the breeze 156 Into a perfect calm ; that not a breath Is heard to...quiver through the closing woods, Or rustling turn the many-twinkling leaves Of aspen tall. The' uncurling floods, diffus'd In glassy breadth, seem through... | |
 | English poets - English poetry - 1889 - 596 pages
...to quiver through the closing woods, Or rustling turn the many-twinkling leaves Of aspen tall. The uncurling floods, diffused In glassy breadth, seem,...through delusive lapse, Forgetful of their course. "f is silence all, And pleasing expectation. Herds and flocks Drop the dry sprig, and, mute-imploring,... | |
 | Leopold Hartley Grindon - 1883 - 380 pages
...and is kept in motion by the wind, except during the stillest possible states of the atmosphere — " Gradual sinks the breeze Into a perfect calm ; that not a breath Is heard to quiver through the silent woods, Or rustling turn the many twinkling leaves Of aspen tall." Directly the wind stirs, the... | |
 | English poetry - 1885 - 686 pages
...Oppressing life ; but lovely, gentle, kind, And full of every hope and every joy, The wish of Nature. Gradual sinks the breeze Into a perfect calm; that...rustling turn the many twinkling leaves Of aspen tall. The uncurling floods, diffused In glassy breadth, seem through delusive lapse Forgetful of their course.... | |
 | Thomas Young Crowell - English poetry - 1885 - 702 pages
...lovely, gentle, kind, And full of every hope and every joy, The wish of Nature. Gradual sinks the bree1e Into a perfect calm; that not a breath Is heard to...rustling turn the many twinkling leaves Of aspen tall. The uncurling floods, diffused In glassy breadth, seem through delusive lapse Forgetful of their course.... | |
 | John Veitch - English poetry - 1887 - 388 pages
...by the hour in fox-glove bells." The approach of Spring with its showers is thus finely told : — " Gradual sinks the breeze Into a perfect calm, that...quiver through the closing woods, Or rustling turn the many-twinkling leaves Of aspen tall. The uncurling floods, diffused In glassy breadth, seem, through... | |
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