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 North American Review - Página 364editado por - 1824Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1850 - 780 páginas
...undergoing transformations ! Not an hour passes that does not witness the birth of some ethereal being. "A dancing shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay." And yet how few — how passing few there are who receive this heaven-sent beauty ! Would not the teacher... | |
| Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 492 páginas
...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,...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.... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1851 - 636 páginas
...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 fair, Like twilight's...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.... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 páginas
...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,...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... | |
| Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 488 páginas
...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,...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.... | |
| 1850 - 140 páginas
...delight, When first she gleam'd upon my sight; A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament ; 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; A dancing shape, an image gay, A traveler between life and death; The... | |
| Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 524 páginas
...delight When f1rst 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 ; 1 written in the third year of his married life. From these verses let him proceed to the following... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 páginas
...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; A dancing shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay. 1... | |
| Anne Marsh- Caldwell - 1851 - 924 páginas
...might both their fates have been 1 I CHAPTER X. " Her eyes like stars of twilight fair, Like twilight, too, her dusky hair, But all things else about her drawn From daylight and the cheerful dawn." WORDSWORTH. PEOPLE in stories always go to fancy-balls, and offend... | |
| Isabel Goldsmid - 1852 - 228 páginas
...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...shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay. — WORDSWORTH. A most pernicious woman. — SHAKSPEAHE. I HAVE not yet spoken of my cousin Viola ;... | |
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