 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 poets of lhkeland wordsworth - Page 318by T. LINDSEY ASPLAND - 1874Full view - About this book
 | English literature - 1850 - 140 pages
...be changed every three or four days. SHE WAS A PHANTOM OF DELIGHT. C3 SHE WAS A PHANTOM OF DELIGHT. SHE was a phantom of delight, When first she gleam'd...From May-time and the cheerful dawn; A dancing shape, an image gay, A traveler between life and death; The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 780 pages
...Oswald's steady aim. Excursion, 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...May-time and the cheerful dawn ; A dancing shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay. I saw her upon nearer view, A spirit, yet a woman too!... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 768 pages
...Oswald's steady aim. 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...about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn; A daneing shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay. I saw her upon nearer view, A spirit,... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 492 pages
...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,...May-time and the cheerful Dawn ; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and way-lay. " I saw her upon nearer view, A Spirit, yet a "Woman... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 524 pages
...delight,' 3 1 Vol. ip 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...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 - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...upon Mr. Wordsworth's charming female portrait: She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight: A lovely apparition sent , To be a...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... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1851 - 636 pages
...notes published in his Life, was addressed to his wife, expresses how sincerely he esteemed her : " She was a phantom of 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 too her dusky hair ; But... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1851 - 352 pages
...of personal, mental, and moral graces : — " * She was a phantom of delight When first she gleam' d upon my sight— A lovely apparition sent To be a moment's ornament. , - Her eyes like stars of twilight fair — Like twilight too her dusky hair ; But all about her else was drawn... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - English literature - 1851 - 378 pages
...already know — ' her eyes ' — ' Like stars of twilight fair ; Like twilight, too, her dark brown hair ; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn.' But strange it is to tell that, in these eyes of vesper gentleness, there was a considerable obliquity... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 506 pages
...delight,' " 1 Vol. ip 209. » Vol. ii. p. 100 : — ' She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight ; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament ; Her ayes as stars of Twilight fair ; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair ; written in the third year of... | |
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