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... A Love Gift for ... - Seite 711841Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Margaret Coxe - 1839 - 364 Seiten
...language, than is to be found in those exquisite stanzas of this poet, commencing with the lines, " She was a Phantom of delight, When first she gleamed upon my sight." The poem entitled Tintern Abbey is one of the most precious morceaux; it is characterised by thought... | |
| 1839 - 880 Seiten
...to give it the name of a song. " She was a phantom of delight When first she gleam'd upon my tight ; A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament ; Her eyes as stare of twilight fair : Like twilight's, too, her dusky hair ; But all things else about her drawn... | |
| 1840 - 368 Seiten
...soul Of all my moral being. SHE WAS 1 PHANTOM. SHE was a phantom of delight When first she gleam'd upon my sight ; A lovely apparition, sent To be a...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... | |
| 1840 - 378 Seiten
...soul Of all my moral being. SHE WAS A PHANTOH. SHE was a phantom of delight When first she gleam'd upon my sight ; A lovely apparition, sent To be a...her dusky hair ; But all things else about her drawn Prom May-time and the cheerful dawn ; A dancing shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay.... | |
| Harriet Mary Browne - 1840 - 302 Seiten
...was at that time, irresistibly suggests a quotation from Wordsworth's graceful poetic picture : — " 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." That so fair a being should... | |
| Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - 1840 - 378 Seiten
...was at that time, irresistibly suggests a quotation from Wordsworth's graceful poetic picture : — " 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." That so fair a being should... | |
| Mrs. Hemans - 1840 - 392 Seiten
...was at that time, irresistibly suggests a quotation from Wordsworth's graceful poetic picture : — " 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." That so fair a being should... | |
| Mrs. Hemans - 1840 - 368 Seiten
...was at that time, irresistibly suggests a quotation from Wordsworth's graceful poetic picture : — " 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." That so fair a being should... | |
| 1869 - 406 Seiten
...element was home. Her loving and admiring husband has drawn her features in the following lines : — "She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed...apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament ; Her eyes are stars of twilight fair; Like twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn... | |
| 1841 - 686 Seiten
...am, dear Sir,your obdt.Servt. AW 72 THE OLD CHURCH CLOCK. ( Concluded from page 59. ) CHAPTER XIV. SHE was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed...lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament I saw her, upon nearer view, A Spirit, yet a Woman too ! Her household motions light and free, And... | |
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