Sentence examples for composed upon from inspiring English sources

Really, without joking, chaste weather – Dian skies – I never lik'd stubble fields so much as now … Somehow a stubble plain looks warm – in the same way some pictures look warm – this struck me so much in my Sunday's walk that I composed upon it".

'Composed upon Westminster Bridge' by William Wordsworth Probably inspired by an early morning crossing of the bridge on the Dover coach, this most famous of London poems describes a view that we can only imagine: in 1802, the Thames, which "glideth at his own sweet will", would have swept unbridged all the way down to London Bridge.

Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 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.

A temperate sharpness about it I never lik'd stubble fields so much as now Somehow a stubble plain looks warm – in the same way that some pictures look warm – this struck me so much in my sunday's walk that I composed upon it".

There are hints of Wordsworth's sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge, and of Keats, and his Homeric "realms of gold".

His imaginary cityscape is composed of skyscraper upon skyscraper, great peaks of them, in a never-ending metropolis.

Sometimes the forms multiply like cells, as in "Disperse" (2010), composed of dozens upon dozens of blown glass circles that look like bubbles on the surface of water, and sometimes they're carved into and excavated, as in "Vestige" (2004), an ephemeral cut-paper piece embedded in the wall.

It has long been realized that the identification of speech sounds and of the word forms composed of them depends upon the context in which they occur and upon the hearer's having mastered, usually as a child, the appropriate phonological and grammatical system.

Some were newly composed, but many drew upon plainsong, vernacular devotional song, and secular song.

The lights slowly come up and the whole stage is composed of massive tiers, upon which stand the entire company.

With a chantlike melody, it sounded as if he'd composed it while gazing upon a moat.