 | William Wordsworth - 1800 - 240 pages
...whose hair was wet With points of morning dew. A basket on her head she bare, Her brow was smooth ?od white, To see a Child so very fair, It was a pure delight.! No fountain from its rocky cave E'er tripp'd with foot so ftee, She seem'd as happy as a wave That dances on the sea. There came from pje... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 356 pages
...blooming Girl, whose hair was wet * With points of morning dew. ' A basket on her head she bear, ' Her brow, was smooth and white, ' To see a child so...delight! ' No fountain from its rocky cave ' E'er tripp'd with foot so free, ' She seem'd as happy as a wave * That dances on the sea. ' There came from... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...I met Beside the church-yard Yew A blooming Girl, whose hair was wet With points of morning dew. " A basket on her head she bare ; Her brow was smooth...seemed as happy as a wave That dances on the sea. ISO " There came from me a sigh of pain Which I could ill confine ; I looked at her and looked again:... | |
 | 1832 - 492 pages
...bowers. A STILL EVENING. The holy time is quiet as a nun, Breathless with adoration— AN INNOCBNT CHILD. No fountain from its rocky cave, E'er tripped with...seemed as happy as a wave That dances on the sea. A STORK IN AUTUMK. A PEACOCK. The peacock in the broad ash- tree, Aloft is. roosted for the night ;... | |
 | 1839 - 538 pages
...beauty on the earth and in the sky — as in that sweet stanza descriptive of a girlish loveliness : " No fountain from its rocky cave E'er tripped with...seemed as happy as a wave That dances on the sea." Animate and inanimate nature seem endowed alike with life. This beautiful blending together of different... | |
 | Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1839 - 540 pages
...beauty on the earth and in the sky — as in that sweet stanza descriptive of a girlish loveliness: " No fountain from its rocky cave E'er tripped with foot so free ; She seemed as happy as a wuve That dances on the sea," Animate and inanimate nature seem endowed alike with life. This beautiful... | |
 | Edinburgh tales, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1845 - 458 pages
...language ; some eternal charm of such perfect delicacy as none but words of inspiration could describe. No fountain from its rocky cave E'er tripped with...seemed as happy as a wave That dances on the sea. Her mind had been nurtured with all the assiduity which the fondest mother, herself studiously accomplished,... | |
 | Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1845 - 424 pages
...language ; some eternal charm of such perfect delicacy as none but words of inspiration could describe. No fountain from its rocky cave E'er tripped with foot so free ; She seemed u happy as a wave That dances on the sea. Her mind had been nurtured with all the assiduity which the... | |
 | George Frederick Graham, Henry Reed - 1847 - 374 pages
...future things appear, Like mountain-tops whose mists have rolled away. WORDSWORTH. ' Potrni to Liberty.' No fountain from its rocky cave E'er tripped with...seemed as happy as a wave That dances on the sea. ' The Two April Mornings.'} Exercise. It that he not only detained the property from the rightful owner,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1849 - 668 pages
...grave, I met, Beside the churchyard yew, A blooming Girl, whose hair was wet With points of morning dew. A basket on her head she bare ; Her brow was smooth and white : To see a cliild so very fair, It was a pure delight ! No fountain from its rocky cave E'er tripped with foot... | |
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No fountain from its rocky cave E'er tripped with foot so free ; She seemed as happy as a wave That dances on the sea. ISO " There came from me a sigh of pain Which I could ill confine ; I looked at her and looked again: — And did not wish her mine. 
