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). - Seite 1301837Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1850 - 144 Seiten
...depart. BRYANT. GIFT FOR THE HOLIDAYS. 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... | |
| Thomas Powell - 1850 - 384 Seiten
...his wife. " SHE WAS A PHANTOM. " 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. And... | |
| Thomas Powell - 1850 - 380 Seiten
...his wife. " SHE WAS A PHANTOM. " 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 dan cing shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay.... | |
| Walter Colton - 1850 - 480 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 : 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... | |
| 1850 - 140 Seiten
...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 ornament...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... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 768 Seiten
...Ereursi«n, 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 ornament...dusky hair ; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn; A daneing shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay. I... | |
| Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 524 Seiten
...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 moment's ornament...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 Seiten
...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.... | |
| Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 488 Seiten
...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.... | |
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