 | Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 506 pages
...spring That went before my steps. Thereafter came One whom with thee friendship had early paired ; But all things else about her drawn From May-time...still, and bright With something of angelic light.' She came, no more a phantom to adorn A moment, but an inmate of the heart, And yet a spirit there for... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 488 pages
...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,...strength, and skill ; A perfect Woman, nobly planned, 1 To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of angelic light."... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1851 - 748 pages
...view, A Spirit, yet a Woman too ! Her household motions light and free, And steps of virgin liberty ; hey imrched 'I'o Scotland's Heaths; or those that...ever to decay ; Of form and aspect too magnificent something of an angel light. O NIGHTINGALE ! thou surely art A Creature of a fiery heart : — These... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1851 - 636 pages
...wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. " And now I see with eyes serene The very.pulse of the machine ; A being breathing thoughtful breath,...command ; And yet a spirit still, and bright, With something of an angel-light." Vol. ii. p. 88. His wife and sister survived him, but his sister-iu-law,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1853 - 300 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...comfort, and command; And yet a Spirit still, and brighl With something of an angel-lig'.i.'. THREE years she grew in sun nna sJ;o«-e' Then Nature said,... | |
 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...and the cheerful Dawn ; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and way-lay. WORDSWORTH. I saw her upon nearer view, A Spirit, yet a Woman...still, and bright With something of angelic light. WOBDSWOBTH. ALL thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1854 - 432 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...still, and bright With something of angelic light. 1804. IX. 0 NIGHTINGALE ! thou surely art A creature of a " fiery heart " : — These notes of thine,... | |
 | American poetry - 1854 - 456 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...and command; And yet a spirit still, and bright With somethmg of an angel light. THE LOST PLEIAD.— Mrs. Hemans. AND is there glory from the heavens departed... | |
 | Henry William Herbert - France - 1854 - 454 pages
...daily food ; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and. smiles. A being breathing thoughtful breath, A traveller between...command, And yet a spirit still, and bright, "With something of an angel light. Such indeed she was in disposition, and neither care nor education had... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1855 - 704 pages
...PHANTOM. OHE 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...still, and bright With something of angelic light. ODE. INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY FROM RECOLLECTIONS OF EARLY CHILDHOOD. The Child is Father of th«... | |
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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... 
