...into flowing lines, soft and graceful as those of a bird circling among flowers. " Her eyes as stare of twilight fair ; Like twilight's too her dusky hair...about her drawn, From May-time and the cheerful dawn." The features of Adam betrayed his affinity to Eve. It was a brother's pride hovering over a sister's...

...untaught motions melted into flowing lines, soft and graceful as those of a bird circling among flowers. " Her eyes as stars of twilight fair ; Like twilight's...dusky hair : But all things else about her drawn, From May -time and the cheerful dawn." The features of Adam betrayed his affinity to Eve. It was a brother's...

...undergoing transformations ! Not an hour passes that does not witness the birth of some ethereal being. "A dancing shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay." And yet how few — how passing few there are who receive this heaven-sent beauty ! Would not the teacher...

...the centre of the mere, .Were subiect to young Oswald's steady aim. Ereursi«n, book vii. A PORTRAIT. She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed...about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn; A daneing shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay. I saw her upon nearer view, A spirit,...

...PHANTOM OF DELIGHT. C3 SHE WAS A PHANTOM OF DELIGHT. SHE was a phantom of delight, When first she gleam'd upon my sight; A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's...the cheerful dawn; A dancing shape, an image gay, A traveler between life and death; The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength,...

...thousand voices, praises God! One can not look too often upon Mr. Wordsworth's charming female portrait: She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed...ornament; Her eyes as stars of twilight fair; Like twilight, too, her dusky hair ; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful...

...Phantom of delight,' 3 1 Vol. ip 209. * Vol. ii. p. 100 : — ' She was a Phantom of delight When f1rst she gleamed upon my sight ; A lovely Apparition, sent...Twilight fair ; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair ; 1 written in the third year of his married life. From these verses let him proceed to the following...

...She was a phantom of delight "When first she gleam'd upon my sight ; A lovely apparition, sent To bo a moment's ornament ; Her eyes as stars of twilight...dusky hair ; But all things else about her drawn From May-time's brightest liveliest dawn ; A dancing shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and way-lay....

...author's heart in the lines , ' She was a Phantom of delight,' " 1 Vol. ip 209. » Vol. ii. p. 100 : — ' She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed...lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament ; Her ayes as stars of Twilight fair ; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair ; written in the third year of...

...author's heart in the lines " She was a Phantom of delight," * 1 Vol. ip 209. 2 Vol. ii. p. 100. : — " She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed...lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament ; written in the third year of his married life. From these verses let him proceed to the following...