She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the... The Etonian - Sida 1021820Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
| Walter Colton - 1850 - 480 sidor
...untaught motions melted into flowing lines, soft and graceful as those of a bird circling among flowers. " Her eyes as stars of twilight fair ; Like twilight's...else about her drawn, From May-time and the cheerful dawn." The features of Adam betrayed his affinity to Eve. It was a brother's pride hovering over a... | |
| Walter Colton - 1850 - 500 sidor
...untaught motions melted into flowing lines, soft and graceful as those of a bird circling among flowers. " Her eyes as stars of twilight fair ; Like twilight's...dusky hair : But all things else about her drawn, From May -time and the cheerful dawn." The features of Adam betrayed his affinity to Eve. It was a brother's... | |
| Walter Colton - 1850 - 534 sidor
...into flowing lines, soft and graceful as those of a bird circling among flowers. " Her eyes as stare of twilight fair ; Like twilight's too her dusky hair...else about her drawn, From May-time and the cheerful dawn." The features of Adam betrayed his affinity to Eve. It was a brother's pride hovering over a... | |
| 1850 - 140 sidor
...PHANTOM OF DELIGHT. C3 SHE WAS A PHANTOM OF DELIGHT. SHE was a phantom of delight, When first she gleam'd upon my sight; A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's...else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn; A dancing shape, an image gay, A traveler between life and death; The reason firm, the temperate... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 sidor
...Oswald's steady aim. Excursion, book vii. A PORTRAIT. She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's...else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn ; A dancing shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay. I saw her upon nearer view,... | |
| Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 524 sidor
...delight,' 3 1 Vol. ip 209. * Vol. ii. p. 100 : — ' She was a Phantom of delight When f1rst she gleamed upon my sight ; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a...Twilight fair ; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair ; 1 written in the third year of his married life. From these verses let him proceed to the following... | |
| Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 492 sidor
...gentler spring That went before my steps. Thereafter came One whom with thee friendship had early paired; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair ; Like Twilight's,...else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn ; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and way-lay. " I saw her upon nearer view,... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1851 - 636 sidor
...She was a phantom of delight "When first she gleam'd upon my sight ; A lovely apparition, sent To bo a moment's ornament ; Her eyes as stars of twilight...dusky hair ; But all things else about her drawn From May-time's brightest liveliest dawn ; A dancing shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and way-lay.... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 sidor
...upon Mr. Wordsworth's charming female portrait: She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight: A lovely apparition sent , To be a...ornament; Her eyes as stars of twilight fair; Like twilight, too, her dusky hair ; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful... | |
| Clara Lucas Balfour - 1851 - 352 sidor
...of personal, mental, and moral graces : — " * She was a phantom of delight When first she gleam' d upon my sight— A lovely apparition sent To be a moment's ornament. , - Her eyes like stars of twilight fair — Like twilight too her dusky hair ; But all about her else was drawn... | |
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