 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1807 - 358 pages
...never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream ; I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile ! Amid a world how different from this...to smile ; On tranquil land, beneath a sky of bliss : Thou shouldst have seem'da treasure-house, a mine Of peaceful years; a chronicle of heaven : —... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 258 pages
...never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream ; I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile ! Amid a world how different from this...to smile ; On tranquil land, beneath a sky of bliss : Thou shouldst have seem'da treasure-house, a mine Of peaceful years ; a chronicle of heaven : —... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream ; I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile ' Amid a world how different from this...to smile ; On tranquil land, beneath a sky of bliss : Thou shouldst have seem'da treasure-house, a mine Of peaceful years ; a chronicle of heaven : —... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream ; I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile ! Amid a world how different from this...to smile ; On tranquil land, beneath a sky of bliss : Thou shouldst have seem'da treasure-house, a mine Of peaceful years ; a chronicle of heaven : —... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 418 pages
...neither sea nor land, But borrowed from the youthful Poet's dream ; I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile ! Amid a world how different from this...On tranquil land, beneath a sky of bliss. A Picture had'it been of lasting ease, Elysian quiet, without toil or strife ; No motion but the moving tide,... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...dream ; I would have planted thcc, thou hoary Pile! Ainid a world how different from this ! Decide a sea that could not cease to smile ; On tranquil land, beneath a sky of bliss : Thou shouldst have secm'da treasure-house, a mine Of peaceful years ; a chronicle of heaven: —... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Fore-edge painting - 1828 - 372 pages
...Amid a world how different from this! !>side a sea that could not cease to smile; On tranquil laod, beneath a sky of bliss. A Picture had it been of lasting ease, \si.tn quiet, without toil or strife; v. motion but the moving tide, a breeze, Or merely silent Nature's... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 368 pages
...never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the poet's dream ; I would have planted thee, thou hoary pile, Amid a world how different from this !...fond illusion of my heart, Such picture would I at that time have made : And seen the soul of truth in every part ; A faith, a trust that could not be... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1843 - 278 pages
...never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the poet's dream ; I would have planted thee, thou hoary pile ! Amid a world how different from this...fond illusion of my heart, Such picture would I at that time have made ; And seen the soul of truth in every part, — A stedfast peace that might not... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Authors' presentation copies - 1845 - 688 pages
...chronicle of heaven ;— Of all the sunbeams that did ever shine The very sweetest had to thee been given. A Picture had it been of lasting ease, Elysian quiet,...the fond illusion of my heart, Such Picture would 1 at that time have made : And seen the soul of truth in every part, A stedfast peace that might not... | |
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The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream, — I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile, Amid a world how different from this! Beside a sea that could not cease to smile; On tranquil land, beneath a sky of bliss.... 
