 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...  Poems - Page 310by William Wordsworth - 1815Full view - About this book
 | 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,... | |
 | A. Robert Smith - Health & Fitness - 2001 - 237 pages
...Wordsworth's images, in his lovely poem "She Was a Phantom of Delight," capture my feelings about Jane: She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed...lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; A Being breathing thought/ill breath, A Traveler between life and death; The reason firm, the temperate... | |
 | Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin - Juvenile Fiction - 2003 - 336 pages
...that girl might live even today. Her name is Rebecca. You'll never forget her. PATRICIA REILLY GIFF Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's,...From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; A dancing Shape, and Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and way-lay. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH "WE ARE SEVEN" THE OLD STAGE COACH... | |
 | Theo d'. Haen, Theo d' Haen, P. Th. M. G. Liebregts, Wim Tigges, Colin J. Ewen - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 324 pages
...spring" he tells us: I heard a thousand blended notes, When in a grove I sate reclined, Or, again, Or, She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; My heart leaps up when I behold, A rainbow in the skv: The artist manages to incorporate all the sounds,... | |
 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - Poetry - 2007 - 778 pages
...cured — Lassie, lie near me! (Chorus) ROBERT BURNS SCOTTISH (1759-1796) 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... | |
 | Ramaswamy - 2004 - 524 pages
...have. 8. l am monarch of all l survey. 9. My heart leaps up when l behold a rainbow in the sky. 10. She was a phantom of delight when first she gleamed upon my sight. 1 1 . Never love unless you can bear with all the faults of man. 12. The belief that merit is neglected,... | |
 | Eliza Richards - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 264 pages
...that the male lyric subject finds the muse alluring because she is more elusive than a real woman, "a dancing Shape, an Image gay / To haunt, to startle, and waylay." 46 Writing as the female "Shape" (Wordsworth's lines serve as the epigraph to a tribute to Osgood published... | |
 | Onno Oerlemans - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 268 pages
...traveller's gaze has become a metaphor for the lover's (rather than the other way round). The woman becomes 'A dancing Shape, an Image gay, / To haunt, to startle, and waylay'; she is an 'apparition' of the dawn, which seems only at first to be 'a moment's ornament' (PW, 2:213),... | |
 | Hagen Kleinert - Science - 2004 - 1512 pages
...Pergamon, New York, 1965; EM Lifshitz and LP Pitaevski, Statistical Physics, Vol. 2, Pergamon, New York, A dancing shape, an image, gay. To haunt, to startle, and waylay, JOHN MILTON, Phantom of Delight (1804) Path Integrals — Elementary Properties and Simple Solutions... | |
 | Paul F. Jopling - 2006 - 544 pages
...not a bad idea; he's a pretty savvy fellow." "Thanks Stan. I'll let you know how I make out." Three She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely apparition, sent To be a moments ornament; William Wordsworth She Was a Phantom of Delight "For God's sake, you mean to tell... | |
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