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... Gleanings from the Poets: For Home and School - Página 156por Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 430 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| William Henry Giles Kingston - 1843 - 948 páginas
...haste through the boughs and thick underwood. Nothing could stop their course. VOL. II. G CHAPTER VII. She was a phantom of delight, When first she gleamed...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... | |
| English poetry - 1844 - 92 páginas
...sea: The boatmen rest their oars and say, Miserere Domine! ST COLERIDGE. EXTRACTS FROM WOKDSWOKTH. SHE was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed...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.... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 páginas
...could know When Lucy ceased to be ; But she is in her grave, and oh, The difference to me! A Portrait. ; And let me catch it as I muse along. Ye headlong torrents, rapid and profound ; Ye huir ; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful d»wn ; A dancing shape,... | |
| Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1844 - 468 páginas
...So saying, he locked up the letter in his desk, and Cesarini soon forgot its existence. CHAPTER V. " She was a phantom of delight, When first she gleamed...lovely apparition sent, To be a moment's ornament." — WORDSWORTH. MALTRAVERS did not see Lady Florence again for some weeks; meanwhile, Lumley Ferrers... | |
| 1841 - 178 páginas
...hither, my young love, and I will wear Thy beauty on my breast delightedly. BAEEY COENWALL. TO MARY. SHE was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed...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.... | |
| Lewis Jacob Cist - 1845 - 202 páginas
...HER OF THE HAZEL EYE. " A form of life and light; Her eyes as stars of twilight fair, Like twilight too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her,...shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay!" WORDSWORTH. MAIDEN of the hazel eye, Fawn-like step, and raven hair — Where a thousand graces lie,... | |
| 1875 - 828 páginas
...BRIEF ACCOUNT OF LIZZIE, THE LATE BELOVED WIFE OF THOMAS JOHNSON HAMEETON. CHAPTER I. — THE MAIDEN. " She was a phantom of delight, When first she gleamed...lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament" " Voices low and gentle, and timid glances shy." " The ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is... | |
| 1846 - 302 páginas
...ne'er Christ's faith they wear, At least may share his cross. SHE WAS A PHANTOM OF DELIGHT. KY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. She was a Phantom of Delight When first...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.... | |
| 1846 - 308 páginas
...they wear, At least may share his cross. SHE WAS A PHANTOM OF DELIGHT. BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. She wai a Phantom of Delight When first she gleamed upon my...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.... | |
| Wilton - 1846 - 298 páginas
...'tis changeable ! God grant that it may vary in its kind, But not a jot of its intensity! PORTRAITS. " She was a Phantom of delight, " When first she gleamed...lovely apparition sent " To be a moment's ornament. • * * " A creature not too bright or good " For human nature's daily food " For transient sorrows,... | |
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