 | John Wilson - 1842 - 426 sivua
...following fresh picture of life and loveliness : " She was a phantom of delight, When first she gleam'd upon my sight ; A lovely apparition sent To be a moment's...about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn." Who does not see the beautiful girl moving in the light of poetry and youth ; and bringing gladness... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - 1842 - 414 sivua
...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. MALTRWERS did not see Lady Florence again for some weeks; meanwhile Lumley Ferrers made... | |
 | Robert Cassie Waterston - 1842 - 338 sivua
...try each art, reprove each dull delay, Allure to brighter worlds, and lead the way." TO A CHILD. " A dancing shape, — an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay ; A Being breathing thoughtful breath, A Traveller between life and death." WORDftWORTH. ALL your thoughts... | |
 | 1842 - 344 sivua
...birlh, I had not sworn to-night, (As now I swear by heaven and earth) Tis true, and pure, and bright. It was a phantom of delight, When first she gleamed upon my sight. \VOHDSWORTB. She knows not, and shall never know How in her sight my pulses glow ; She dreams not as... | |
 | 1843 - 184 sivua
...learn no trust need e'er be given To joys less pure than make a heaven. SHE WAS A PHANTOM OF DELIGHT. SHE was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed...shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and way-lay. I saw her upon nearer view, A spirit, yet a woman too ; Her household motions light and free, And steps... | |
 | William Henry Giles Kingston - 1843 - 948 sivua
...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... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Hemans - 1844 - 376 sivua
...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 sivua
...could know When Lucy ceased to be ; But she is in her grave, and oh, The difference to me! A Portrait. least ( \ ⏀ "J 1844 William...Robert Chambers"% Chambers Robert" Robert Chambers( I saw her upon nearer view, A spirit, yet a woman too ! Her household motions light and free, And steps... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 92 sivua
...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 sivua
...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,... | |
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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... 
