 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...view, A spirit, yet a woman too ! Her household motions light and free, And steps of virgin liberty; A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises...foresight, strength, and skill; A perfect woman, nobly plann'd, To warn, to comfurt, and command ; And yet a spirit still, and bright With something of an... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 308 pages
...Twilight's, too, her 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...command ; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of an angel-light. Who knows that truth is strong next to the Almighty ; the needs no policies,... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...view, A spirit, yet a woman too ! Her household motions light and free, And steps ofy virgin liberty ; A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises...command ; And yet a spirit still, and bright With something of an angel light. THE LOST PLEIAD. — Mrs. Hemans. AND is there glory from the heavens... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...view, A spirit, yet a woman too ! Her household motions light and free, And steps of virgin liberty ; A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises...foresight, strength, and skill; A perfect woman, nobly plann'd, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a spirit still, and bright With something of an... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1849 - 668 pages
...Apocalypse, The types and symbols of Eternity, Of first, and last, and midst, and without end. i Tea SHE was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed...still, and bright With something of angelic light. IX. 0 NIGHTINGALE ! thou surely art A creature of a ' fiery heart ' : — These notes of thine —... | |
 | Thomas Powell - American literature - 1850 - 382 pages
...of twilight fair ; Like twilight's, too, her dusky hair ; But all things else about her drawn Prom May-time and the cheerful dawn ; A dancing shape,...still, and bright With something of angelic light." In our foregoing extracts we have endeavored to illustrate every opinion and observation we have made... | |
 | Thomas Powell - American literature - 1850 - 380 pages
...her dusky hair ; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn ; A dan cing shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay....still, and bright With something of angelic light." In our foregoing extracts we have endeavored to illustrate every opinion and observation we have made... | |
 | Thomas Powell - American literature - 1850 - 384 pages
...From May-time and the cheerful dawn ; A dancing shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay. And steps of virgin-liberty ; A countenance in which...still, and bright With something of angelic light." In our foregoing extracts we have endeavored to illustrate every opinion and observation we have made... | |
 | Literature - 1850 - 144 pages
...wiles, GIFT FOR THE HOLIDAYS. And now I see, with eye serene, The very pulse of the machine ; A creature breathing thoughtful breath, A traveller between life...and command ; And yet a spirit still and bright With something of an angel light. • WORDSWORTH. 2Lobe Weber COME — let us go to the land Where the violets... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 492 pages
...gentler spring That went before my steps. Thereafter came One whom with thee friendship had early paired; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair ; Like Twilight's,...still, and bright With something of angelic light." 1 Page 364. She came, no more a Phantom to adorn A moment, but an inmate of the heart, And yet a spirit... | |
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Like Twilight's, too, her 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. I saw her upon nearer view, A Spirit, yet a Woman too ! Her household motions... 
