 She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the...  The Microcosm: Or, Little World of Home - Page 1791835Full view - About this book
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - 1840 - 378 pages
...was at that time, irresistibly suggests a quotation from Wordsworth's graceful poetic picture : — " She was a phantom of delight, When first she gleamed...lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament. ***** A dancing shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay." That so fair a being should... | |
 | 1840 - 378 pages
...soul Of all my moral being. SHE WAS A PHANTOH. SHE was a phantom of delight When first she gleam'd upon my sight ; A lovely apparition, sent To be a...moment's ornament ; Her eyes as stars of twilight fair ; Like twilight's, too, her dusky hair ; But all things else about her drawn Prom May-time and the... | |
 | 1869 - 406 pages
...element was home. Her loving and admiring husband has drawn her features in the following lines : — "She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed...apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament ; Her eyes are stars of twilight fair; Like twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn... | |
 | 1841 - 686 pages
...am, dear Sir,your obdt.Servt. AW 72 THE OLD CHURCH CLOCK. ( Concluded from page 59. ) CHAPTER XIV. SHE was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed...lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament I saw her, upon nearer view, A Spirit, yet a Woman too ! Her household motions light and free, And... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - 1842 - 414 pages
...So saying, he locked up the letter in his desk, and Cesarini soon forgot its existence. CHAPTER V. "She was a phantom of delight, When first she gleamed...lovely apparition sent, To be a moment's ornament." WORDSWORTH. MALTRWERS did not see Lady Florence again for some weeks; meanwhile Lumley Ferrers made... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 426 pages
...following fresh picture of life and loveliness : " She was a phantom of delight, When first she gleam'd upon my sight ; A lovely apparition sent To be a moment's ornament ; Her eyes as stars of twilight fair, Like twilight's too her dusky hair ; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 414 pages
...To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of twilight fair, Like twilight's too her dusky hair ; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn." Who does not see the beautiful girl moving in the light of poetry and youth; and bringing gladness... | |
 | 1842 - 344 pages
...birlh, I had not sworn to-night, (As now I swear by heaven and earth) Tis true, and pure, and bright. It was a phantom of delight, When first she gleamed upon my sight. \VOHDSWORTB. She knows not, and shall never know How in her sight my pulses glow ; She dreams not as... | |
 | 1843 - 184 pages
...learn no trust need e'er be given To joys less pure than make a heaven. SHE WAS A PHANTOM OF DELIGHT. SHE was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed...moment's ornament ; Her eyes as stars of twilight fair, Like twilight's too her dusky hair ; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful... | |
 | William Henry Giles Kingston - 1843 - 948 pages
...haste through the boughs and thick underwood. Nothing could stop their course. VOL. II. G CHAPTER VII. She was a phantom of delight, When first she gleamed...lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; A dancing shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay. WOBDSWORTH. WE have, in a previous... | |
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