 The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.  The American Whig Review - Page 761851Full view - About this book
 | 1845 - 596 pages
...form, By silent sympathy. ' The stars of midnight shall be dear To her ; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place, Where rivulets dance their...born of murmuring sound, Shall pass into her face. ' And vita] feelings of delight Shall rear her form to stately height, Her virgin bosom swell ; Such... | |
 | Lydia Maria Child - New York (N.Y.) - 1845 - 320 pages
...describes the young maiden, to whom Nature was "both law and impulse": " She shall lean her ear Tn many a secret place, Where rivulets dance their wayward...of murmuring sound, Shall pass into her face." The engraved likeness of Ole Bui often reminds me of these lines. It seems listening to one of his own... | |
 | Timothy Shay Arthur - 1845 - 908 pages
...form By silent sympathy. " The stars of midnight shall be dear To her ; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place, Where rivulets dance their...born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face." Or this passage from the Excursion : " Oh ! many are the poets that are sown By nature ; men endowed... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 398 pages
...midnight— shall be dear To her ; and she *hnll Iran her *;ar, In many a secret pluce, Where rivulet* dance their wayward round; And beauty, born of murmuring sound, Shall pass into her face. And vital feelings of deliglit— Shall rear her form— to smtHy height, llrr virgin bu*om pwfll;... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...This stanza beautifully exemplifles the last. 5 Silence, calm — See note 1, p. 89. Where rivulets1 dance their wayward round, And beauty, born of murmuring sound, Shall pass into her face. " And vital feelings of delight Shall rear her form to stately height,5 Her virgin bosom swell ; Such... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Anatomy - 1845 - 390 pages
...midnight—shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear, In many a secret place, Where rivulets dance iheir wayward round; And beauty, born of murmuring sound, Shall pass into her face. And viittl feelings of delight— Shall rear her form — to stalely height, Her virgin bosom swell;... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 302 pages
...Maiden's form By silent sympathy. The stars of midnight shall be dear To her ; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their...born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face. And vital feelings of delight Shall rear her form to stately height, Her virgin bosom swell; Such thoughts... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - Criticism - 1847 - 462 pages
...maiden's form By silent sympathy. The stars of midnight shall be dear To her ; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their...born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face. SC] no injuries of wind or weather, of toil, or even of ignorance, wholly disguise the human face divine.... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - Criticism - 1847 - 380 pages
...maiden's form By silent sympathy. The stars of midnight shall be dear To her ; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their...born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face. SC] it. Here the Man and the Poet lose and find themselves in each other, the one as glorified, the... | |
 | 1847
...dear To her ; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place, Where rivulets dance their way ward round, And beauty, born of murmuring sound, Shall pass into her face." Here we do not find the image of a sponge, but merely a description of a natural effect of melody and... | |
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