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... Ward's miscellany (and family magazine). - Sida 1301837Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
| Walter Colton - 1860 - 476 sidor
...motions melted into flowing lines, soft and graceful a« 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... | |
| Richard Henry Stoddard - 1861 - 526 sidor
...That Lucy's eyes surveyed. 1799. She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight ; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament...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. I... | |
| George Washington Doane (bp. of New Jersey.) - 1861 - 652 sidor
...you, through grace, may be : " She was a Phantom of delight, When first she gleam'd upon my sight ; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament...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.... | |
| Richard Henry Stoddard - 1861 - 552 sidor
...That Lucy's eyes surveyed. 1799. She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight ; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament...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. I... | |
| Saskatchewan. Department of Education - 1910 - 260 sidor
...the moral lesson of the poem. 4. She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight ; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament...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. I... | |
| Herbert Lockyer - 1988 - 324 sidor
...heart because of his mother's death. She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament;...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. I... | |
| Jim Geoghan - 1993 - 92 sidor
...life, women ... (From memory.) "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, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn;... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1994 - 628 sidor
...resting-place. 'She was a Phantom of delight' She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament;...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... | |
| 2000 - 134 sidor
...lorely apparition. sent To he a moment's 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 morn. This is the picture of his sweetheart when the beautiful vision first... | |
| Lawrence Kramer - 2002 - 350 sidor
...the first stanza of which reads: She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament;...dusky hair, But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the chearful Dawn: A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and way-lay. 18.... | |
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