It is a beauteous evening, calm and free,
The holy time is quiet as a Nun
Breathless with adoration; the broad sun
Is sinking down in its tranquility;
The gentleness of heaven broods o’er the Sea …
- William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Today's spoken word artists often drop the microphone when they deliver lines that cannot be topped. I'm pretty sure writers didn't have competitions in the Romantic era, but Wordsworth could have dropped his pen after writing just the first line of this poem.
