 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
 | Isabel Goldsmid - 1839 - 336 pages
...the " ars medendi ;" but few are aware how oft it has swollen the bills of mortality. CHAPTER III, 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... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - Poets, English - 1839 - 374 pages
...at that time, irresistibly suggests a quotation from Wordsworth's graceful poetic picture : — . " She was a phantom of delight, When first she gleamed...lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament. » » • • « A dancing shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay." That so fair a being... | |
 | Miss Browne - Poets, English - 1839 - 314 pages
...was at that time, irresistibly suggests a quotation from Wordsworth's graceful poetic picture : — " She was a phantom of delight, When first she gleamed...lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament ***** A dancing shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay." That so fair a being should... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - English language - 1839 - 482 pages
...flowers. LUCY.— WORDSWORTH. She was a phantom of delight, "Vhen first she gleamed upon my sight ; i lovely apparition sent To be a. moment's ornament ; Her eyes as stars of twilight fair, But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn ; A dancing shape, an image... | |
 | Margaret Coxe - Young women - 1839 - 364 pages
...language, than is to be found in those exquisite stanzas of this poet, commencing with the lines, " She was a Phantom of delight, When first she gleamed upon my sight." The poem entitled Tintern Abbey is one of the most precious morceaux; it is characterised by thought... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks, Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - Bibliography - 1839 - 554 pages
...is the idea of this picture: NO. VII. VOL. IV. 8 " She was * Phantom of dehshl When first she Beamed upon my sight ; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament ; Her eves as stars of Twilight fair ; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her... | |
 | 1839 - 880 pages
...to give it the name of a song. " She was a phantom of delight When first she gleam'd upon my tight ; A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament ; Her eyes as stare of twilight fair : Like twilight's, too, her dusky hair ; But all things else about her drawn... | |
 | Harriet Mary Browne Owen - 1839 - 312 pages
...When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament. * * * * * A dancing shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay." That so fair a being should excite the warmest admiration, was not surprising. Perhaps it was not more... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 368 pages
...soul Of all my moral being. SHE WAS 1 PHANTOM. SHE was a phantom of delight When first she gleam'd upon my sight ; A lovely apparition, sent To be a...shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay. I saw her upon nearer view, A spirit, yet a woman too ! Her household motions light and free, And steps... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 378 pages
...soul Of all my moral being. SHE WAS A PHANTOH. SHE was a phantom of delight When first she gleam'd upon my sight ; A lovely apparition, sent To be a...her dusky hair ; But all things else about her drawn Prom May-time and the cheerful dawn ; A dancing shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay.... | |
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