 But, ere it touch'da foot, that might have danced The greensward into greener circles, dipt, And mix'd -with shadows of the common ground ! But the full day dwelt on her brows, and sunn'd Her violet eyes, and all her Hebe-bloom, And doubled his own warmth...  A Gift for the Holidays - Page 371850Full view - About this book
 | Christianity - 1842 - 750 pages
...lower, trembled on her waist — Ah, happy shade — and still went wavering down, But, ere it touch'da foot, that might have danced The greensward into greener...shade, She stood, a sight to make an old man young. " So rapt, we near'd the house ; but she, a Rose In roses, mingled with her fragrant toil, Nor heard... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 250 pages
...lower, trembled on her waist— Ah, happy shade—and still went wavering down, But, ere it toUch'da foot, that might have danced The greensward into greener...shade, She stood, a sight to make an old man young. Into the world without; till close at hand, And almost ere I knew mine own intent, This murmur broke... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1843 - 256 pages
...lower, trembled on her waist — Ah, happy shade— and still went wavering down, But, ere it touch'da foot, that might have danced The greensward into greener...shade, She stood, a sight to make an old man young. So rapt, we near'd the house ; but she, a Rose In roses, mingled with her fragrant toil, Nor heard... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...lower, trembled on her waist — Ah, happy shade — and still went wavering down, But, ere it touch 'da foot, that might have danced The greensward into greener...shade, She stood, a sight to make an old man young. So rapt, we near'd the house ; but she, a Rose In roses, mingled with her fragrant toil, Nor heard... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1846 - 254 pages
...lower, trembled on her waist — Ah, happy shade — and still went wavering down, But, ere it touch'da foot, that might have danced The greensward into greener...shade, She stood a sight to make an old man young. Into the world without ; till close at hand, And almost ere I knew mine own intent, This murmur broke... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 402 pages
...dipt, And mix'd with shadows of the common ground ! But the full day dwelt on her brows, and suun'd Her violet eyes, and all her Hebe-bloom, And doubled...shade, She stood, a sight to make an old man young. So rapt, we near'd the house ; but she, a Rose In roses, mingled with her fragrant toil, Nor heard... | |
 | Eliza Cook - 1850 - 432 pages
...violet eyes, and all her Hebe bloom, And doubled his own warmth against her lips, And on the beauteous wave of such a breast As never pencil drew. Half light,...shade, She stood, a sight to make an old man young." Not only the rose, but the sweet honeysuckle bloomi along the old winding highways, and in the woods,... | |
 | Frank Edward Smedley - 1850 - 582 pages
...CATCHING SIGHT OF AN OLD FLAME. " Give me thy hand I'm glad to find thee here."—The Lmer'e Melancholy. "Half light, half shade, She stood, a sight to make an old man young."— The Gardener's Daughter. UTTERLY worn out, both in mind and body, by hard reading and confinement,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1851 - 276 pages
...dipt, And mixed with shadows of the common ground! But the full day dwelt on her brows, and sunned Her violet eyes, and all her Hebe-bloom, And doubled...her lips, And on the bounteous wave of such a breast VOL. i. 16 As never pencil drew. Half light, half shade, She stood, a sight to make an old man young.... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1854 - 286 pages
...dipt, And mixed with shadows of the common ground ! But the full day dwelt on her brows, and sunned Her violet eyes, and all her Hebe-bloom, And doubled...her lips, And on the bounteous wave of such a breast VOL. i. 16 As never pencil drew. Half light, half shade, She stood, a sight to make an old man young.... | |
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