 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...  Dorothy Wordsworth; the Story of a Sister's Love - Page 97by Edmund Lee - 1887 - 226 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 488 pages
...author's heart in the lines " She was a Phantom of delight," * 1 Vol. ip 209. 2 Vol. ii. p. 100. : — " She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed...lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament ; written in the third year of his married life. From these verses let him proceed to the following... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Authors, English - 1851 - 386 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... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...trumpet; EBEV; EnRP; HelP; NIP; NoP; OBEV; Son; TrGrPo POETRY QUOTATIONS She Was a Phantom of Delight 133 1 (1. 1—4) 134 A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows,... | |
 | Jim Geoghan - Drama - 1993 - 92 pages
...favorite. Here's a guy who hung around, wrote poems about nature, rainbows, life, women ... (From memory.) "She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed...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 Dawn;... | |
 | Stephen Bonnycastle - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 252 pages
...on to theories that aren't useful. I will provide two brief examples of how Vico's paradigm can be A dancing shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and way-lay. This is stage i material; and it is striking that Wordsworth recognizes the ambiguity of stage i —... | |
 | Andrew J. Davis - 1996 - 428 pages
...life's flower-encircled door, to show us those we love." Can it be that man is a temporary phenomenon, "a dancing shape, an image gay, to haunt, to startle, and waylay" with this attribute of hope ? Hope is the door which opens upon eternal life. "What is it that men... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...float Until I have a little Boat, Shaped like the crescent- moon. 12817 'She Was a Phantom of Delight' the Walrus' 12818 'She Was a Phantom of Delight' And now 1 see with eye serene The very pulse of the machine; A... | |
 | Tamar E. Granor, Ted Roche, Steven Black - Computers - 1998 - 996 pages
...OPTIMIZE for all the reasons. Example BLANK nTotai FOR See Also EmptyQ, IsBlankQ, Set Null BOFQ, EOF() She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; William Wordsworth, She Was a Phantom of Delight, 1 807 These functions stand for Beginning Of File... | |
 | History - 2000 - 134 pages
...nursing children." and so on. ad nauseam. The first. a picture to illustrate Wordsworth's noble lines: She was a phantom of delight. When first she gleamed upon my sight. A lorely apparition. sent To he a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of twilight fair. Like twilight.... | |
 | Lawrence Kramer - Music - 2002 - 350 pages
...Wordsworth, ed. Stephen Gill [Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984], 292), the first stanza of which reads: She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed...things else about her drawn From May-time and the chearful Dawn: A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and way-lay. 18. Maynard Solomon,... | |
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