 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 1561846Full view - About this book
 | Frederick William Robertson - 1858 - 384 pages
...concern to exhibit that which is common to all men." As a specimen of this, take that well-known poem: " She was a phantom of delight, When first she gleamed...her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn Prom May-time's brightest, loveliest dawn; A dancing shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and... | |
 | Charles Mackay - Love poetry - 1858 - 420 pages
...SHE was a phantom of delim,t, When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely apparition, sent To 1x3 a moment's ornament. Her eyes as stars of twilight...the cheerful Dawn, A dancing shape, an image gay To hannt, to startle, and waylay. I saw her upon nearer view A spirit, yet a woman too! Her household... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - American poetry - 1858 - 644 pages
...lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament ; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight too her dusky hair ; But all things else about her...an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay. I siw her upon nearer view, A Spirit, yet a "Woman too! Her household motions light and free. And stops... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - American poetry - 1858 - 642 pages
...cast .Around the dell a gleam Of Palestine, of glory past, And proud Jerusalem! A PORTRAIT. .Si IE was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon...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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Bookbinding - 1858 - 550 pages
...woods. SHE was a phantom of delight When first she gleam' d upon my sight ; A lovely apparition, sont To be a moment's ornament ; Her eyes as stars of twilight...all things else about her drawn From May-time and tho cheerful dawn ; A dancing shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay. I saw her upon... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pages
...She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight ; A lovely apparition, sent To he a moment's ornament ; Her eyes as stars of twilight...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 waylay.... | |
 | Bridget Storey (fict. name.) - 1859 - 306 pages
...conversation branched off to those with whom Bridget was less concerned. 233 CHAPTER XVIII. PARISH WORK. She was a phantom of delight, When first she gleamed...dusky hair ; But all things else about her drawn From May-time's brightest, loveliest dawn ; A dancing shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay.... | |
 | England - English poetry - 1860 - 532 pages
...body, drest In the dress that she was wed in, That her spirit might have rest. TENXVSDX. to a $lpt0m of 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.... | |
 | Walter Colton - California - 1860 - 476 pages
...motions melted into flowing lines, soft and graceful a« those of a bird circling among flowers. " Her eyes as stars of twilight fair; Like twilight's...about her drawn, From May-time and the cheerful dawn." The features of Adam betrayed his affinity to Eve. It was a brother's pride hovering over a sister's... | |
 | D R. M'Nab - 1860 - 296 pages
...in us both was the first thing and the most amiable and engaging ornament in our eyes. WILLIAM PENN. 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. I saw her, upon nearer view, A spirit,... | |
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