 Thou whose locks outshine the sun, Golden tresses, wreathed in one, As the braided streamlets run ! Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet...  Chambers' Edinburgh Journal - Page 1121849Full view - About this book
 | 1861 - 676 pages
...themselves would have failed to render in its earnest, innocent, elevated regard. She was very young — Standing with reluctant feet Where the brook and river meet — Womanhood and childhood fleet. Good Heavens, I am quoting poetry '. what will you think of me, Hervey, to have gone back to our Wertherian... | |
 | 468 pages
...eyes, In whose orb a shadow lies, Like the dusk in evening skies ! Thou whose locks outshine the sun, Golden tresses wreathed in one, As the braided streamlets...childhood fleet ! Gazing, with a timid glance, On the brooklet's swift advance, On the river's broad expanse ! Deep and still, that gliding stream Beautiful... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1842 - 148 pages
...eyes, In whose orbs a shadow lies Like the dusk in evening skies ! Thou whose locks outshine the sun, Golden tresses, wreathed in one, As the braided streamlets...childhood fleet ! Gazing, with a timid glance, On the brooklet's swift advance, On the river's broad expanse ! Deep and still, that gliding stream Beautiful... | |
 | 1842 - 818 pages
...In vt hose orbs a shadow lies, Like the dusk in evening skies ! Thou, whose locks outsliinc the sun. Golden tresses, wreathed in one. As the braided streamlets...childhood fleet ' Gazing, with a timid glance, On the brooklet's swift advance, On the river's broad expanse ! Deep and still, that gliding stream Beautiful... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1842 - 638 pages
...eyes, In whose orbs a shadow lies, Like the dusk in evening skies ! Thou, whose locks outshine the sun, Golden tresses, wreathed in one, As the braided streamlets...childhood fleet ! Gazing, with a timid glance, On the brooklet's swift advance, On the river's broad expanse ! Deep and still, that gliding stream Beautiful... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1843 - 570 pages
...eyes, In whose orbs a shadow lies Like the dusk in evening skies ! Thou whose locks outshine the sun, Golden tresses, wreathed in one, As the braided streamlets...childhood fleet ! Gazing, with a timid glance, On the brooklet's swift advance, On the river's broad expanse ! Deep and still, that gliding stream Beautiful... | |
 | 1848 - 634 pages
...pianofortes sent out from Europe abide the climate of the New World. — CHAPTER VIH. — THE FIRST SORROW. Standing with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet. LONGFELLOW. IDA was no longer a child. Seventeen years and six months had done their best to rob her... | |
 | 1846 - 302 pages
...eyes, In whose orbs a shadow lies, Like the dusk in evening skies ! Thou, whose locks outshine the sun, Golden tresses, wreathed in one, As the braided streamlets...childhood fleet ! Gazing, with a timid glance, On the brooklet's swift advance, On the river's broad expanse : Deep and still, that gliding atream Beautiful... | |
 | 1846 - 694 pages
...settled on her cradle, darken at this point, so full of strange wondrous interest, now when she was " Standing, with reluctant feet. Where the brook and...childhood fleet ! Gazing, with a timid glance, On the brooklet's swift advance, On the river's broad eхрппse ! " The tears crept to Ally's eyes,... | |
 | Emily Chubbuck Judson - 1847 - 304 pages
...rested on her cradle, darken at this point, so full of strange, wondrous interest, now when she was " Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and...and childhood fleet. Gazing, with a timid glance, On the brooklet's swift advance, On the river's broad expanse." The tears crept to Ally's eyes ; but they... | |
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