| Henry Coppée - Literature - 1895 - 552 pages
...romancing; She was our queen, our rose, our star ; And when she danced — 0 Heaven ! her dancing ! Dark was her hair ; her hand was white ; Her voice...Shot right and left a score of arrows : I thought 'twas Venus from her isle, And wondered where she left her sparrows. She talked of politics or prayers,... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 496 pages
...hearts romancing; She was our queen, our rose, our star, And when she danced — O heaven, her dancing! Dark was her hair, her hand was white, Her voice was...smile. Shot right and left a score of arrows: I thought 'twas Venus from her isle, And wondered where she'd left her sparrows. She talked of politics or prayers,... | |
| Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1896 - 94 pages
...romancing ; She was our queen, our rose, our star ; And then she danced—O Heaven, her dancing! ARK was her hair, her hand was white ; Her voice was exquisitely...smile, Shot right and left a score of arrows; I thought 'twas Venus from her isle, And wondered where she'd left her sparrows. 37 'HE talked,—of politics... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne - Anthologies - 1897 - 642 pages
...hearts romancing; She was our queen, our rose, our star, And when she danced — O heaven, her dancing! Dark was her hair, her hand was white, Her voice was...smile, Shot right and left a score of arrows: I thought 'twas Venus from her isle, And wondered where she'd left her sparrows. She talked of politics or prayers,... | |
| Frederick Saunders, Minnie K. Davis - American poetry - 1899 - 768 pages
...romancing: She was our queen, our rose, our star ; And then she danced— oh, heaven, her dancing I Dark was her hair, her hand was white ; Her voice...Shot right and left a score of arrows ; I thought 'twas Venus from her isle, And wondered where she'd left her sparrows. She talked of politics or prayers... | |
| Harry Thurston Peck, Frank R. Stockton, Julian Hawthorne - Anthologies - 1901 - 422 pages
...romancing : She was our queen, our rose, our star; And when she danced — oh, Heaven, her dancing I Dark was her hair, her hand was white ; Her voice...of arrows ; I thought 't was Venus from her isle, I wondered where she 'd left her sparrows. She talk'd of politics or prayers ; Of Southey's prose,... | |
| Frederic Lawrence Knowles - American poetry - 1902 - 516 pages
...romancing : She was our queen, our rose, our star ; And when she danced — O Heaven, her dancing! Dark was her hair, her hand was white ; Her voice...smile, Shot right and left a score of arrows; I thought 'twas Venus from her isle, And wonder'd where she'd left her sparrows. She talk'd, — of politics... | |
| Frederic Lawrence Knowles - American poetry - 1902 - 508 pages
...romancing : She was our queen, our rose, our star; And when she danced — O Heaven, her dancing ! Dark was her hair, her hand was white ; Her voice...Shot right and left a score of arrows ; I thought 'twas Venus from her isle, She talk'd, — of politics or prayers ; Of Southey's prose, or Wordsworth's... | |
| Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1903 - 166 pages
...represented as drawing her chariot. Cp. No. 74. 63. So also Praed in The Belle of the Ball-Room: " Her every look, her every smile, Shot right and left a score of arrows ; I thought 'twas Venus from her isle, And wondered where she'd left her sparrows." 7. On's, on his. 8. crystal,... | |
| English poetry - 1904 - 876 pages
...romancing: She was our queen, our rose, our star; And then she danced, — O Heaven ! her dancing. Dark was her hair; her hand was white; Her voice was...isle, And wondered where she 'd left her sparrows. She talked of politics or prayers, Of Southey's prose or Wordsworth's sonnets, Of danglers or of dancing... | |
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