 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1872 - 582 pages
...fowling-piece and fllly, In short, while I was yet a boy, I saw her at a country ball, There where the sound of flute and fiddle, Gave signal sweet, in that old...; Hers was the subtlest spell by far, Of all that sets young hearts romancing, She was our queen, our rose, our star, And when she danced—Oh, heaven... | |
 | Henry Llewellyn Williams - Recitations - 1872 - 218 pages
...Where in my towling-piece and filly, In short, while I was yet a boy, I fell in love with Laura Lilly. I saw her at the county ball. There, when the sounds of flnte and fiddle Gave signal sweet in that old hall. Of hands across and down the middle, Hers was... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 874 pages
...in my fowling-piece and filly,— In short, while I was yet a boy, I fell in love with Laura Lily. e was full of confidence from what he had seen, and talked She was our queen, our rose, our star; And then she danced — О Heaven, her dancing ! Dark was her... | |
 | Henry Southgate - Love poetry - 1873 - 448 pages
...in my fowling-piece and filly, — In short, while I was yet a boy, I fell in love with Laura Lily. I saw her at the County Ball : There when the sounds...spell by far Of all that set young hearts romancing ; She was our queen, our rose, our star ; And then she danced — O heaven, her dancing ! Dark was... | |
 | London Mayfair - 1874 - 468 pages
...in my fowling-piece and filly, — In short, while I was yet a boy, I fell in love with Laura Lily. I saw her at the county ball : There, when the sounds...that old hall Of hands across and down the middle, 276 THE BELLE OF THE BALL-ROOM. Hers was the subtlest spell by far Of all that set young hearts romancing;... | |
 | American poetry - 1875 - 432 pages
...while I was yet a boy, I fell in love with Laura Lily. I saw her at the County Ball : There, where the sounds of flute and fiddle, Gave signal sweet,...that old hall, Of hands across and down the middle, 3 Hers was the subtlest spell by far Of all that set young hearts romancing ; She was our queen, our... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1875 - 560 pages
...a bov, I fell in love with Laura Lilly. I saw her at a county ball ; There, when the sound of Hutc and fiddle Gave signal sweet in that old hall Of hands across and down the middle, HITS was the subtlest spell by far Of all that sets young hearts romancing : She was our queen, our... | |
 | American poetry - 1875 - 432 pages
...Gave signal sweet, in that old hall, Of hands across and down the middle, THE BELLE OF THE BALL-ROOM. Hers was the subtlest spell by far Of all that set young hearts romancing ; She was our queen, our rose, our star ; And then she danced — O Heaven, her dancing ! Dark was... | |
 | Mary Charlotte J. Leith - 1875 - 370 pages
...disconsolately : he grew thin and pale, avoided society, and became altogether a changed man. CHAPTEE XIV. " Hers was the subtlest spell by far Of all that set young hearts romancing." WM PBABD. " T AUEA, I have been talking to Aunt Helen, and -*-^ she is quite come round to staying... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1876 - 599 pages
...in my fowling-piece and filly, — In short, while I was yet a boy, I fell in love with Laura Lilly. I saw her at the county ball ; There, when the sounds...middle, Hers was the subtlest spell by far Of all that sets young hearts romancing : She was our queen, our rose, our star ; And then she danced, —0 Heaven... | |
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There, when the sounds of flute and fiddle Gave signal sweet in that old hall Of hands across and down the middle, Hers was the subtlest spell by far Of all that... 
