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" 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... "
Poetry for Home and School ... - Page 156
1846
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The Works of Mrs. Hemans: With a Memoir of Her Life, Volume 1

Felicia Dorothea Hemans - 1844 - 376 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...
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English poetry, for use in the schools of the Collegiate institution ...

English poetry - 1844 - 92 pages
...sea: The boatmen rest their oars and say, Miserere Domine! ST COLERIDGE. EXTRACTS FROM WOKDSWOKTH. SHE was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed...dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time's brightest, liveliest dawn; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and way-lay....
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Cyclopędia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...could know When Lucy ceased to be ; But she is in her grave, and oh, The difference to me! A Portrait. ; And let me catch it as I muse along. Ye headlong torrents, rapid and profound ; Ye huir ; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful d»wn ; A dancing shape,...
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Ernest Maltravers Or The Eleusinia, Volume 8

Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1844 - 468 pages
...So saying, he locked up the letter in his desk, and Cesarini soon forgot its existence. CHAPTER V. " She was a phantom of delight, When first she gleamed...lovely apparition sent, To be a moment's ornament." — WORDSWORTH. MALTRAVERS did not see Lady Florence again for some weeks; meanwhile, Lumley Ferrers...
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A Love Gift for ...

Love poetry - 1841 - 178 pages
...hither, my young love, and I will wear Thy beauty on my breast delightedly. BAEEY COENWALL. TO MARY. SHE was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed...dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May time and the cheerful dawn ; A dancing shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and way-lay....
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Trifles in Verse: A Collection of Fugitive Poems

Lewis Jacob Cist - American poetry - 1845 - 202 pages
...HER OF THE HAZEL EYE. " A form of life and light; Her eyes as stars of twilight fair, Like twilight too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her,...shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay!" WORDSWORTH. MAIDEN of the hazel eye, Fawn-like step, and raven hair — Where a thousand graces lie,...
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The Methodist new connexion magazine and evangelical repository, Volume 78

1875 - 828 pages
...BRIEF ACCOUNT OF LIZZIE, THE LATE BELOVED WIFE OF THOMAS JOHNSON HAMEETON. CHAPTER I. — THE MAIDEN. " She was a phantom of delight, When first she gleamed...lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament" " Voices low and gentle, and timid glances shy." " The ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is...
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Voices of the True-hearted

American literature - 1846 - 302 pages
...ne'er Christ's faith they wear, At least may share his cross. SHE WAS A PHANTOM OF DELIGHT. KY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. She was a Phantom of Delight When first...dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time's brightest, liveliest dawn ; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and way-lay....
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Voices of the True-hearted

American literature - 1846 - 308 pages
...they wear, At least may share his cross. SHE WAS A PHANTOM OF DELIGHT. BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. She wai a Phantom of Delight When first she gleamed upon my...dusky hair ; But all things else about her drawn From May-time's brightest, liveliest dawn ; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and way-lay....
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Imaginations and imitations [in verse], by Hope

Wilton - 1846 - 298 pages
...'tis changeable ! God grant that it may vary in its kind, But not a jot of its intensity! PORTRAITS. " She was a Phantom of delight, " When first she gleamed...lovely apparition sent " To be a moment's ornament. • * * " A creature not too bright or good " For human nature's daily food " For transient sorrows,...
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