| Hunt and Lee, comps. The Book of the Sonnet. 1867. | | | | IV. Landscape Painting | | By William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
| | (Suggested by a picture painted by Sir George Howland Beaumont, Bart.) |
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PRAISED be the Art whose subtle power could stay | |
| Yon cloud, and fix it in that glorious shape; | |
| Nor would permit the thin smoke to escape, | |
| Nor those bright sunbeams to forsake the day; | |
| Which stopped that band of travellers on their way, | 5 |
| Ere they were lost within the shady wood; | |
| And showed the bark upon the glassy flood | |
| Forever anchored in her sheltering bay. | |
| Soul-soothing Art! which Morning, Noontide, Even, | |
| Do serve with all their changeful pageantry; | 10 |
| Thou, with ambition modest yet sublime, | |
| Here, for the sight of mortal man, hast given | |
| To one brief moment caught from fleeting time | |
| The appropriate calm of blest eternity. | | | |
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