The sun was gone now ; the curled moon Was like a little feather Fluttering far down the gulf ; and now She spoke through the still weather. Her voice was like the voice the stars Had when they sang together. The New Poetical Reader - Page 122edited by - 1872 - 160 pagesFull view - About this book
| James Thomas Fields - 1864 - 458 pages
...Her gaze still strove Within the gulf to pierce Its path ; and now she spoke, as when The stars sung in their spheres. The sun was gone now. The curled...Her voice was like the voice the stars Had when they sung together. " I wish that he were come to me, For he will come," she said. " Have I not prayed in... | |
| Francis Fisher Broune - 1870 - 458 pages
...bosom must have made The bar she leaned on warm. And the lilies lay a*, if asleep Along her bended arm. The sun was gone now ; the curled moon Was like a...still weather. Her voice was like the voice the stars liad when they sang together. On the whole, evtfn the judgment of William Morris will probably seem... | |
| 1870 - 784 pages
...bosom must have made The bar she leaned on warm, And the lilies lay as if asleep Along her bended arm. The sun was gone now ; the curled moon Was like a...feather, Fluttering far down the gulf ; and now She apoke through the still weather. " I wish that he were come to me, For he will come," she said. " Have... | |
| 1871 - 402 pages
...and now she spoke, as when The stars sung in their spheres. The sun was gone now. The curled IE oon Was like a little feather Fluttering far down the...Her voice was like the voice the stars Had when they sung together. " I wish that he were come to me, For he will come," she said. " Have I not prayed in... | |
| Robert Williams Buchanan - 1872 - 116 pages
...where, far down the void, "this earth Spins like a fretful midge," or that other, describing how " the curled moon Was like a little feather Fluttering far down the gulf," — the general effect is that of a queer old painting on a missal, very affected and very odd. What... | |
| 1874 - 900 pages
...heaven she saw Time like a pulse shake fierce Through all the world. . . ." Again : " The sun was rone now , the curled moon Was like a little feather Fluttering far down the gulf." He sees that she is looking for him, and then she speaks, not to him, for she sees him not, but of... | |
| 1878 - 490 pages
...ahle to look you uu in the village." Commouplace language this seems to yon and me, but to him — " Her voice was like the voice the stars Had when they sang together." " I hope you are quite hetter now, Miss Gorman,'' he managed to get out " Oh, yes, thanks to your good... | |
| Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 pages
...Her gaze still strove Within the gulf to pierce Its path ; and now she spoke as when The stars sang 0 m that bird's (Ah, sweet! Even now, in song, Strove not her accents there, Fain to be hearken'd ? When... | |
| Charlotte Moon Clark - 1881 - 332 pages
...bosom must have made The bar she leaned on warm, And the lilies lay as if asleep Along her bended arm. And now She spoke through the still weather, Her voice...like the voice the stars Had when they sang together. DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI. PART I. CAMP AND GARRISON1. STIM, when she slept, he kept both watch and ward... | |
| Charlotte Moore Clark - 1881 - 334 pages
...bosom must have made The bar she lean'd on warm, And the lilies lay as if asleep Along her bended arm. And now She spoke through the still weather, Her voice...like the voice the stars Had when they sang together. DANTE GABEIEL ROSSETTI. DEDICATED TO THE English mib Jmtdt Veterans of the <&nmt&, BY A VIRGINIAN WHO... | |
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