| Biography - 1852 - 372 pages
...1802. Every one will remember the beautiful lines which the poet has addressed to her, commencing — "She was a phantom of delight, When first she gleamed upon my sight." And it is pleasant to add that the illusion of this first love never died out of his heart. De Quincy... | |
| George Searle Phillips - 1852 - 314 pages
...talent for discussion and analytic skill may be inferred from his celebrated verses, beginning : ' She was a phantom of delight • When first she gleamed upon my sight ;' and ending with this matchless winding up jjf ' A perfect woman, nobly planned To warn, to comfort,... | |
| Kenelm Henry Digby - 1852 - 450 pages
...express result of the element we are observing ! " She was a phantom of delight When first she gleam'd upon my sight : A lovely apparition sent To be a moment's ornament. I saw her, upon nearer view, A spirit, yet a woman too ! A countenance in which did meet Sweet records,... | |
| Forget-Me-Not, Forget-me-not - 1853 - 138 pages
...Meek, yielding to the occasion's call, And all things suffering from all, Thy function apostolical SHE was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed...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 cheerful... | |
| Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...dress that she was wed in, That her spirit might have rest. TI;NNYSON. tons af Ipitom 0f geligjrt. SHE was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed...ornament ; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair ; Like twilight's, too, her dusky hah'; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1853 - 770 pages
...informer or false accuser generally. In modern languages it has acquired the sense of a mean flatterer. " She was a phantom of delight, When first she gleamed...lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament." Wordncorth. Phemi (Gr.), / speak; as, prophet, prophetical, prophesy. Philos (Gr.), a lover; as philosopher,... | |
| Anne Marsh-Caldwell - 1853 - 498 pages
...been then revealed to him, how different might both their fates have been! CHAPTER X. Her eyes like stars of twilight fair, Like twilight, too, her dusky hair, But all things else about her drawn From daylight and the cheerful mcrn. WORDSWORTH. 'PEOPLE in stories always go to fancy balls, and offend... | |
| William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1853 - 300 pages
...these shades In gentleness of heart ; with gentle hand Touch — for there is a spirit in the woods. TT SHE was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sigm, A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament ; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair ; Like... | |
| American poetry - 1854 - 456 pages
...if you 're waking, call me, call me early, mother dear. SHE WAS A PHANTOM OF DELIGHT. - Wordnurth. SHE was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed...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 cheerful... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1854 - 776 pages
...shades In gentleness of heart ; with gentle hand Pouch — for there is a spirit in the woods. U'f SHE was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my eight ; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair ; Like... | |
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