| William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1800 - 240 pages
...midnight shall be dear To her, and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets danee 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, Her virgin bosom swell, Such thoughts... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1802 - 356 pages
...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. *' And vital feelings of delight Shall rear her form to stately height, Her virgin bosom swell, Such... | |
| Lyre - Love poetry, English - 1806 - 204 pages
...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. And vital feelings of delight Shall rear her form to stately height, Her virgin bosom swell ; Such... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1815 - 442 pages
...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. " And vital feelings of delight Shall rear her form to stately height, Her virgin bosom swell ; Such... | |
| 1815 - 612 pages
...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." * * * * Thus Nature spake ; the work was done ; How soon my Lucy's race was run ! She died, and left... | |
| William Shakespeare - English drama (Comedy) - 1872 - 480 pages
...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 "; — in these lines we have four pure and perfect metaphors. Again : In Cymbeline, old Belarius says... | |
| William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 438 pages
...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. " And vital feelings of delight Shall rear her form to stately height, Her virgin bosom swell ; Such... | |
| William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1820 - 372 pages
...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. And vital feelings of delight Shall rear her form to stately height, Her virgin bosom swell ; Such... | |
| Sir Charles Abraham Elton - 1820 - 136 pages
...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." — Thus Nature spoke : the work was done : — How soon my Lucy's race was run ! She died, and left... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1824 - 478 pages
...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. ' Tintern Abbey' is a variety of the same class. If we were called on to point out our favorite piece... | |
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