 Beware !" her vest of gold Broidered with flowers and clasped from head to foot, An emerald stone in every golden clasp, And on her brow, fairer than alabaster, A coronet of pearls. But then her face ! So lovely, yet so arch, so full of mirth, The overflowings...  Fly - Page 61839Full view - About this book
 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 390 pages
...coronet of pearls. But then her face, fco lovely, yet so arch, so full of mirth, Tlie overflowing — of an innocent heart — It haunts me still, though many a year has fled, /.ike some wild melody ! Alone it hangs, Over a mouldering heir-loom; its companion. An oaken cheat,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...her brow, fairer than alabaster, A coronet of pearls. But then her face, So lovely, yet so arch, so full of mirth, The overflowings of an innocent heart...though many a year has fled, Like some wild melody ! Along it hangs Over a mouldering heir-loom, its companion, An ojiken-chest, half-eaten by the worm,... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 540 pages
...From the German. 20. But then her face, So lovely, yet so arch — so full of mirth, The overflowing of an innocent heart ; — It haunts me still, though many a year has fled, Like some wild melody. ROGERS' Italy. 21. Light be thy heart ! why should'st thou keep Sadness within its secret cells ? Let... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 526 pages
...From the German. 20. But then her face, So lovely, yet so arch — so full of mirth, The overflowing of an innocent heart ; — It haunts me still, though many a year has fled, Like some wild melody. ROGERS' Italy. 21. Light be thy heart ! why shouid'st thou keep Sadness within its secret cells ? Let... | |
 | 1847 - 566 pages
...This glossy silken memory, THE CARVED CHESTS OF THE CHANNEL ISLANDS. A SLTUHTLY COLOURED SKETCH. " An oaken chest, half eaten by the •worm, But richly carved by Anthony of Trent, With Scripture stories from the life of Christ ; A chest that came from Venice, and... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold's - 1847 - 586 pages
...This glossy silken memory, THE CARVED CHESTS OF THE CHANNEL ISLANDS. A SLIGHTLY COLOURED SKETCH. " An oaken chest, half eaten by the worm, But richly carved by Anthony of Trent, With Scripture stories from the life of Christ ; A chest that came from Venicej and... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - English periodicals - 1847 - 584 pages
...Place, BlaMeath. WC BENNETT. THE CARVED CHESTS OF THE CHANNEL ISLANDS. A SLIGHTLY COLOURED SKETCH. " An oaken chest, half eaten by the worm, But richly carved by Anthony of Trent, With Scripture stories from the life of Christ ; A chest that came from Venice, and... | |
 | Reciter - 1848 - 262 pages
...her brow, fairer than alabaster, A coronet of pearls. But then her face, So lovely, yet so arch, so full of mirth, The overflowings of an innocent heart...hangs Over a mouldering heir-loom, its companion, An oaken-chest, half-eaten by the worm, But richly carved by Antony of Trent, With scripture-stories from... | |
 | Reciter - 1848 - 262 pages
...her brow, fairer than alabaster, A coronet of pearls. But then her face, So lovely, yet so arch, so full of mirth, The overflowings of an innocent heart—...though many a year has fled, Like some wild melody ! Over a mouldering heir-loom, its companion, An oaken-chest, half-eaten by the worm. But richly carved... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1849 - 348 pages
...brow', fairer than alabaster', A coronet of pearls\ 4. But then her face, So lovely', yet so arch ' , so full of mirth, The overflowings of an innocent heart;...though many a year has fled, Like some wild melody ! 6. Alone it hangs Over a moldering heirloom ; its companion, An oaken chest, half eaten by the worm,... | |
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