 | American periodicals - 1862 - 770 pages
...round, BO plump, sO soft aa she, Nor half so full of juice. ' Her feet beneath her petticoat, Lake little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light : But oh ! ohe dances such a way ! No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight. ; Her cheeks,... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...goodness lead him not, yet weariness May toss him to my breast. The Pulley. SIR JOHN SUCKLING. 1609-16-11. Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light ; But oh ! she dances such a way ! No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight. On a Wedding.... | |
 | Henry Southgate - Fore-edge painting - 1865 - 398 pages
...glance so heavily, and fill, As tear on tear grows gathering stilL Byron. Alluring Beauty of her Feet. Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they fear'd the light : But oh ! she dances such a way ! No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight.... | |
 | Women - 1865 - 380 pages
...glance so heavily, and fill, As tear on tear grows gathering stilL Byron. Alluring Beauty of her Feet. Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they fear'd the light : But oh ! she dances such a way ! No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight.... | |
 | Bill Moore - Cooking - 1987 - 180 pages
...serendipity. Sometimes the words are sheer beauty; for example: Liquid lapse of murmuring streams. JOHN MILTON Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out. SIR JOHN SUCKLING When I lie tangled in her hair, And fettered to her eye, The gods that wanton in... | |
 | Steven H. Gale - English wit and humor - 1996 - 690 pages
...Upon a Wedding" exhibits Suckling's use of the rustic perspective in the poem's most famous lines: Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they feared the light. The vivid image of the dainty feet in their delicate movement offers light, humorous criticism of the... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...Aglaura 'Song' If of herself she will not love, Nothing can make her: The devil take her! 1 1270 :-! s are accomplished, all the objects for which government ought to be established are answered. 5028 11271 'Against Fruition Women enjoyed (whatsoe'er before they've been) Are like romances read, or sights... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Humor - 1998 - 404 pages
...4097 Aglaura 'Song' If of herself she will not love, Nothing can make her: The devil take her! 4098 'A Ballad upon a Wedding" Her feet beneath her petticoat,...mice, stole in and out, As if they feared the light. 4099 'Against Fruition' Women enjoyed (whatsoe'er before they've been) Are like romances read, or sights... | |
 | Samuel Alexander - Philosophy - 2000 - 324 pages
...daring to quote it because under our modern conditions it requires an effort to realise the picture: Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light. And oh I she dances such a way, No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight. Miss Austen's novels... | |
 | Bill Moore, David Booth - Children's poetry - 2003 - 154 pages
...right picture — when it is so cold the snow makes a creaking, crinching sound, as you walk over it. Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out. Sir John Suckling It is a miracle that the pictures created in words by poets seem so vivid and real.... | |
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Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light: But, oh ! she dances such a way— No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight. 
