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Earth has not anything to show more fair! Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty! This city now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky— All bright and glittering in the smokeless air, Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour valley, rock, or hill; Ne’er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at its own sweet will; Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still.
Earth has not anything to show more fair! Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty! This city now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky— All bright and glittering in the smokeless air, Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour valley, rock, or hill; Ne’er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at its own sweet will; Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still.
Approximate author period: c. 1810 AD · industrial
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- William Wordsworth
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- Approximate author period: c. 1810 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 99 · printed citation: Wordsworth · subject: CALMNESS
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