...about the effect of doing so. One stanza says all that mattered to him: She listened with a fitting blush, With downcast eyes and modest grace; For well she knew, I could not choose But gaze upon her face.84 The happy denouement of the ballad is repeated in the scene of its telling, when the meaningful...

...watercolor, and ink over pencil drawing, 5.75 x 9 inches. Collection of Susan and Jack Davis. She listened with a flitting blush, With downcast eyes and modest...she knew I could not choose But gaze upon her face. —Coleridge 14662 Herrick. Copyright 1907. Gouache, watercolor, and ink over pencil drawing, 5.75...

...statue of the armed Knight She stood and listen'd to my harp, 35 Amid the ling'ring light. 1 play'da sad and doleful air, I sang an old and moving story, An old rude song, that fitted well The ruin wild and hoary. 40 She listen'd with a flitting blush, With downcast eyes and...

...riper days, with .I Hiigiifiiiil. or 7ht /Vurr/'/W Rnmli.il oI'Millais. "I played a soft and dolcl'ul air. I sang an old and moving story— An old rude...song, that suited well That ruin wild and hoary.'' If ever pencil gave the tender pathos and suggested the moving cadences of a poet's verse this lovely...

...hope! my joy! my Genevieve! She loves me best whene'er I sing The songs that make her grieve. -96I play'da soft and doleful air; I sang an old and moving...she knew I could not choose But gaze upon her face. That sometimes from the savage den, And sometimes from the darksome shade, And sometimes starting up...