 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...they share That are so wondrous sweet and fair. ON A GIRDLE. That which her slender waist confin'd Shall now my joyful temples bind : No monarch but...crown, His arms might do what this has done. It was my heav'n's extremest sphere, The pale which held that lovely deer. My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,... | |
 | Henry Drury - English poetry - 1865 - 424 pages
...nolo : Sed esse loco, quo sum, est necesse, Et nequeo, quo loco essem, esse. HD Œo a ïïaijj'îa THAT which her slender waist confined Shall now my...extremest sphere, The pale which held that lovely deer : My joy, my grief, my hope, my love Did all within this circle move. A narrow compass ! and yet... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 252 pages
...disparity. ' Poets, sire,' replied the witty courtier, ' succeed better in fiction than in truth.' ON A GIRDLE. That which her slender waist confined Shall now my joyful temples bind : It was my heaven's extremest sphere, The pale which held that lovely deer ; My joy, my grief, my... | |
 | Gail Hamilton - Etiquette for young women - 1865 - 352 pages
...little mice," she is expected to reduce her feet to the dimensions of mice, or that, when he announces " That which her slender waist confined Shall now my joyful temples bind," she is thinking of a slenderness produced by lashing herself to the bedpost? Be sure a woman will never... | |
 | James Hannay - English literature - 1866 - 350 pages
...in the year 1687. The little poem of his we now subjoin is called — LINES ON A. LADY'S OIKDLB. " That which her slender waist confined, Shall now my...extremest sphere, The pale which held that lovely dear, My j°y> my grief, my hope, my love, Did all within this circle move. A narrow compass ! and yet there... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 pages
...but of his voice the boy had burned. E. WALLER 137 ON A GIRDLE which her slender waist confined JL shall now my joyful temples bind: no monarch but would...extremest sphere, the pale which held that lovely deer: my j°v> mY grief; my hope, my love did all within this circle move. A narrow compass! and yet... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - Ballads, English - 1866 - 240 pages
...lovers live by thinking on their loss. WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT. ON A GIRDLE. THAT which her Jlender waifi confined, Shall now my joyful temples bind; No monarch...arms might do what this 'has done. It was my heaven's extremeft sphere, The pale which held that lovely deer. My joy, my grief, my hope, my love, Did all... | |
 | 1866 - 812 pages
...cold fact that we give it : — " That which her slender walit confined Shall now my joyful tempies bind. No monarch but would give his crown, His arms...has done. It was my heaven's extremest sphere, The paie which held that lovely dear ; My joy, my arief, my hope, my love, Did all within this circie move.... | |
 | England - 1866 - 848 pages
...«lender waist confined Shall now my joyful temples bind. No monarch but nould givo his crown, Ills arme might do what this has done. It was my heaven's extremest...sphere, The pale which held that lovely dear ; My jny, my (jrlef, my hope, my love, Did all within this circle move. A narrow compass ! and yet there... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - Bookbinding - 1866 - 328 pages
...of a brave, rash young man, and the passion for the relic becomes respectable — nay, poetical. " That which her slender waist confined Shall now my joyful temples bind." So sings Ben Jonson ; and we acknowledge the Anacreontic beauty of the wish. Yes, they who have that... | |
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ON A GIRDLE THAT which her slender waist confined Shall now my joyful temples bind : No monarch but would give his crown His arms might do what this has done. It was my Heaven's extremest sphere, The pale which held that lovely deer : My joy, my grief,... 
