 | Mrs. Hemans - 1840 - 368 sidor
...When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament. * * * * * A dancing shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay." That so fair a being should excite the warmest admiration, was not surprising. Perhaps it was not more... | |
 | 1869 - 406 sidor
...twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn 1'rom May-time and the cheerful dawn ; A dancing shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay. I saw her upon nearer view, A spirit, yet a woman too ! Her household motions light and free, And steps... | |
 | Robert Cassie Waterston - 1842 - 338 sidor
...try each art, reprove each dull delay, Allure to brighter worlds, and lead the way." TO A CHILD. " A dancing shape, — an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay ; A Being breathing thoughtful breath, A Traveller between life and death." WORDftWORTH. ALL your thoughts... | |
 | 1843 - 184 sidor
...twilight's too her dusky hair ; But all things 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, A spirit, yet a woman too ; Her household motions light and free, And steps... | |
 | William Henry Giles Kingston - 1843 - 948 sidor
...delight, When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; A dancing shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay. WOBDSWORTH. WE have, in a previous chapter, attempted to describe the romantic and pastoral beauty... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Hemans - 1844 - 376 sidor
...first she gleamed upon my sight ; A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament. * • • * * A dancing shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay." That so fair a being should excite the warmest admiration, was not surprising. Perhaps it was not more... | |
 | Life - 1844 - 308 sidor
...crowd. IS CHAPTER X. THE INTERVIEW. " She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight, A dancing shape an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay. I saw her upon nearer view, A spirit, yet, a woman too! A creature not too bright or good For human nature's... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 sidor
...twilight's, too, her dusky hair ; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn ; ine in the university of" empire, even down to the minutest membe saw her upon nearer view, A spirit, yet a woman too ! Her household motions light and free, And steps... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 92 sidor
...too, her 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. I saw her upon nearer view, A Spirit, yet a Woman too ! Her household motions light and free, And steps... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 sidor
...twilight's, too, her dusky huir ; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful d»wn ; the incidents are too few. Sir P. Good God ! Believe me, Mr Sneer saw her upon nearer view, A spirit, yet a woman too ! Her household motions light and free, And steps... | |
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Like twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn; A dancing shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay. 
