 | Friedrich Johann Jacobsen - English poetry - 1820 - 796 pages
...day tuns , and the chearful down. A dancing shape , an image gay Tv luumt , to startle , and way lay. I saw her upon nearer view A spirit yet a wom,an too Her household motions light and frt• And steps of virgin liberty. A countenance in which did meet Sweet records , promises as sweet.... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Walter Blunt - 1822 - 430 pages
...Twilight's, too, her dusky hair ; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful fawn ; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle,...Sweet records, promises as sweet ; A creature not too blight or good For human nature's daily food ; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1823 - 474 pages
...May-time and the cheerful Dawn : A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, and startle, and way-lay. 1 saw her upon nearer view, A Spirit, yet a Woman too!...For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, lore, kisses, tears, and smiles. " Beautiful verses, truly," quoth Mrs. Elizabeth ; " and a beautiful... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1823 - 264 pages
...way-lay. J saw her upon nearer view, * A Spirit, yet a Woman loo ! Her household motioni light and frer. And steps of virgin liberty; A countenance in which...good For human nature's daily food ; For transient sorrow, simple wiles, Praise, blame, lore, kisses, tears, and smiles.'1 " Beautiful verses truly,"... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - College stories - 1823 - 380 pages
...about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn : A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, and startle, and way-lay. I saw her upon nearer view,...free, And steps of virgin liberty ; A countenance hi which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet ; A Creature not too bright or good For human nature's... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Walter Blunt - English essays - 1824 - 446 pages
...her dusky hair ; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful fawn ; A daucing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay. I saw her upon nearer view A Spirit, yet a Woman tool Her household motions light and free, And steps of virgin liberty ; A countenance in which did... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Fore-edge painting - 1828 - 372 pages
...and the cheerful Dawn; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and way-lay. ' saw Ser upon nearer view, A Spirit, yet a Woman too ! Her household motions light and free, Asrd steps of virgin liberty; A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A Creature... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; A dancing Shape, an Image puv. To haunt, to itartle, and way-lay. I saw her upon nearer view, A Spirit, yet a Woman too! Her household-motions light and free, And steps of virgin-liberty ; A countenance in which did meet Sweet... | |
 | Letitia Elizabeth Landon - 1832 - 512 pages
..." to realise two sweet extremes of womanhood. Under the first I would write Wordsworth's lines— ' A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A creature not too bright or t'ood For human nature's daily food — For transient sorrows, simple ivilrs, Praise, blame, love,... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1833 - 832 pages
...if less, is also more than an angel of romance. She is Wordsworth's PORTRAIT drawn at-full length. " A creature not too bright or good For human nature's...For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, lore, kisses, tears, and smileĞ. And now, I gee with eye serene, The very pulse of the machine : A... | |
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A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet ; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food, For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. 
