 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1890 - 482 pages
...was yet a boy, I fell in love with Laura Lilly. I saw her at a county ball ; There, when the soundof flute and fiddle Gave signal sweet in that old hall...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 — O Heaven,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1890 - 458 pages
...her at a ,-ounty ball ; There, when the sound of Hute and fiddle to greet, SONGS OF THREE CENTURIES. Gave signal sweet in that old hall Of hands across...middle, Hers was the subtlest spell by far Of all that sets young hearts romancing : She was our queen, our rose, our stur ; And when she danced — 0 Heaven,... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson, Coulson Kernahan - English poetry - 1891 - 452 pages
...ago,—ere yet my dreams Or yawn'd o'er this infernal Chitty;— Years—years ago,—while all my joy There, when the sounds of flute and fiddle Gave signal sweet in that old hall I saw her at the County Ball : Of hands across and down the middle, Hers was the subtlest spell by... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson, Coulson Kernahan - English poetry - 1891 - 458 pages
...years ago, — while all my joy Was in my fowling-piece and filly, — In short, while I was yet a boy, I saw her at the County Ball : There, when the sounds of flute and riddle Gave signal sweet in that old hall Of hands across and down the middle, Hers was the subtlest... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1891 - 556 pages
...bell. Byron. QUEEN OP THE. I saw her at a country ball, There, when the sound of flute and fiddle, Oave signal sweet in that old hall, Of hands across and down the middle. Her's was the subtlest spell by far Of all that sets young hearts romancing; ehe was our queen, our... | |
 | Children's poetry - 1894 - 288 pages
...was yet a boy, I fell in love with Laura Lilly. I saw her at a country 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 when she danced — oh, heaven,... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Literature - 1895 - 552 pages
...my fowling-piece and filly — In short, while I was yet a boy — I fell in love with Laura Lilly. I saw her at the county ball : There, when the sounds...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 was... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1895 - 768 pages
...Nature. Byron, Mar. FaL I saw her at a county ball ; There when the sound of flute and fiddle Gnvc signal sweet in that old hall, Of hands across and...middle. Hers was the subtlest spell by far Of all that sets young hearts romancing ; She was our queen, our rose, our star ; And whea she danced — oh, heaven,... | |
 | Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...Clarence, you'll come to our ball. c. PBAKD— Our Ball. I saw her at a country ball ; There when the sound d May, With its slight fingers full of leaves and...be away, In lovelier scenes to pass these sweeter sets young hearts romancing : She was our queen, our rose, our star; And when she danced — oh, heaven,... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne - Anthologies - 1897 - 642 pages
...was yet a boy, I fell in love with Laura Lilly. I saw her at a country 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 when she danced — O heaven,... | |
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There, when the sounds of flute and fiddle Gave signal sweet, in that old hall, Of hands across and down the middle, Hers was the subtlest spell by far Of all that... 
