 | English poetry - 1904 - 876 pages
...filly; In short, while I was yet a boy, 1 fell in love with Laura Lilly. I saw her at the county ball ; There, when the sounds of flute and fiddle Gave signal...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, — O Heaven... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English poetry - 1907 - 616 pages
...— In short, while I was yet a boy, I fell in love with Laura Lily. 8 I saw her at the County Ball: There, when the sounds of flute and fiddle Gave signal...romancing; She was our queen, our rose, our star; 15 And then she danced — O Heaven, her dancing ! Dark was her hair, her hand was white; Her voice... | |
 | American poetry - 1907 - 396 pages
...while I was yet a boy, I fell in love with Laura Lilly. 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, A Vers de Societe Anthology Hers was the subtlest spell by far Of all that set young hearts romancing,... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English poetry - 1907 - 654 pages
...her at the County Ball: There, when the souiuV of flute and fiddle Gave signal sweet in that^1 'i:ill Of hands across and down the middle, Hers was the subtlest spell by far Of аП that set young hearts romancing; She was our queen, our rose, our star; And then she danced —... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1909 - 284 pages
...— 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 of flute and fiddle Gave signal...spell by far Of all that set young hearts romancing ; 15 She was our queen, our rose, our star ; And then she danced — O Heaven, her dancing ! Dark was... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1911 - 784 pages
...and heaven. 283 B»ron : Mar. Faliero. Act iv Sc. 1 I saw her at a county ball ; There when the sound of flute and fiddle Gave signal sweet in that old...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 — oh, heaven,... | |
 | Mary Jane Taber - Bells - 1912 - 208 pages
...while I was yet a boy I fell in love with Laura Lily. I saw her at a country ball There where the sound of flute and fiddle Gave signal sweet, in that old...middle; 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,... | |
 | Ralph Davol - Taunton (Mass.) - 1912 - 498 pages
...of contract — a contract between two parties inclined to matrimony. CHAPTER IX A Belle of Taunton Hers was the subtlest spell by far Of all that set young hearts romancing. PRAED. IN an account book of Colonel White an entry, in the summer of 1756, reads: "Loaned four dollars... | |
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Heaven ! her dancing ! Dark was her hair ; her hand was white ; Her voice was exquisitely tender ; Her eyes were full of liquid light ; I never saw a waist so slender. Her every look, her every smile... 
