 Upon the glassy plain; and oftentimes, When we had given our bodies to the wind, And all the shadowy banks on either side Came sweeping through the darkness, spinning still The rapid line of motion, then at once Have I, reclining back upon my heels, Stopped...  Poems - Page 47by William Wordsworth - 1815Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 568 pages
...my heels Stopp'd short : yet still the solitary cliffs Wheel'd by me even as if the earth had roll'd With visible motion her diurnal round : Behind me...solemn train Feebler and feebler, and I stood and watch'd Till all was tranquil as a summer sea. ESSAY IV. Es ist fast traurig zu schen, vTie man von... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - Country life - 1854 - 592 pages
...either side Came sweeping through the darkness, spinning still The rapid line of motion, then at once, Have I, reclining back upon my heels, Stopped short ; yet still the solitary clifl7 Wheel'd by me — even as if the earth had roll'd With visible motion her diurnal round ! Behind... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1854 - 776 pages
...side Came sweeping through the darkness, spinning still The rapid line of motion, then at once Hare I, reclining back upon my heels, Stopped short; yet still the solitary clifls Wheeled by me — even as if the earth had rolled With visible motion her 'diurnal round ! Behind... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1856 - 590 pages
...either side Came sweeping thro' the darkness, spinning still The rapid line of motion, then at once Have I, reclining back upon my heels, Stopped short...and I stood and watched Till all was tranquil as a dreamless sleep.* We have quoted these passages principally as illustrating how from his first years... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1856 - 556 pages
...darkness, spinning still The rapid line of motion, then at once Have I, reclining back upon my heck, Stopped short ; yet still the solitary cliffs Wheeled...and I stood and watched Till all was tranquil as a dreamless sleep. * We have quoted these passages principally as illustrating how from his first years... | |
 | David Macbeth Moir - English poetry - 1856 - 360 pages
...either side Came sweeping through the darkness, spinning still The rapid line of motion, then at once Have I, reclining back upon my heels, Stopped short; yet still the solitary cliffs Wheeled by me—even as if the earth had rolled With visible motion her diurnal round ! Behind me did they stretch... | |
 | 1008 pages
...through the darkness, spinning The rapid line of motion, then at one* Have I, reclining back upon mv heels. Stopped short ; yet still the solitary cliffs Wheeled by me— even as if the Earth bad rolled With vUible motion her diurnal round I Behind me did they itrctch in solemn train, Feebler... | |
 | David Macbeth Moir - English poetry - 1856 - 358 pages
...either side Came sweeping through the darkness, spinning still The rapid line of motion, then at once Have I, reclining back upon my heels, Stopped short ; yet still the solitary cliff's Wheeled by me — even as if the earth had rolled With visible motion her diurnal round ! Behind... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1857 - 480 pages
...either side Came sweeping through the darkness, spinning still The rapid line of motion, then at once Have I, reclining back upon my heels, Stopped short...and watched Till all was tranquil as a summer sea.* 3799. THERE WAS A BOY.t THERE was a Boy ; ye knew him well, ye cliffs And islands of Winander ! —... | |
 | Country life - 1857 - 298 pages
.... . ; Stopp'd short; yet still the solitary cliffs Wheel'd by me—even as if the earth had roll'd With visible motion her diurnal round ! Behind me...solemn train, Feebler and feebler, and I stood and watch'd Till all was tranquil as a summer sea, WINTER. Wordsworth. THIS is the eldest of the seasons... | |
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