 A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of an angel 13 light. XV.— I WANDERED LONELY. 1804. I WANDERED lonely as a cloud...  Studies in Poetry and Philosophy - Page 46by John Campbell Shairp - 1872 - 399 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1821 - 420 pages
...Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill ; A perfect Woman, nobly plann'd, To warn, to comfort, to command ; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of an angel light." I produce then my third proof from " Ruth :" — " The Youth of green savannahs spake, And many an... | |
 | Anna Garlin Spencer - 1923 - 338 pages
...firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill; A perfect woman, nobly plann'd, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a spirit...still and bright, With something of an angel light." — WORDSWORTH. "Yet in herself she dwelleth not, Although no home were half so fair; No simplest duty... | |
 | 1824 - 446 pages
...Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill ; A perfect Woman, nobly plann'd, To warn, to comfdrt, to command ; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of an angel light." I produce then my third proof from " Ruth :" — " The youth of green savannahs spake, And many an... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Walter Blunt - 1824 - 446 pages
...Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill ; A perfect Woman, nobly plann'd, To warn, to comfort, to command ; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of an angel light." I produce then my third proof from " Ruth :" — " The youth of green savannahs spake, And many an... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 412 pages
...reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill, A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet...still, and bright 'With something of an angel light. X. 0 NIGHTINGALE ! thou surely art A Creature of a fiery heart : — These notes of thine — they... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - 1828 - 600 pages
...strength, and skill, A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command ; WORDSWORTH. And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of an angel light. TO A HIGHLAND GIRL. (AT INVER8NEYDE, UPON LOCH LOMOND.) SWEET Highland Girl, a very shower Of beauty... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...Endurance, foresight, strength and skill; A perfect Woman; nolily plann'd, To warn, to comfort, anil angel-light. NATURE'S FAVOURITE. iiiiu) years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said : A lovelier... | |
 | 1832 - 598 pages
...the comparison, and to give our meaning its proper music, ' A perfect woman, nobly planned To warm, to comfort, and command ; And yet a spirit still — and bright With something of an angel light.' We had just finished our quotation, when a friend entered, whose opinions are worth seeking, and to... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill; A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet...spirit still, and bright With something of an angel Tight. THY ART BE NATURE. A POET! — He hath put his heart to school. Nor dares to move unpropped... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1833 - 832 pages
...The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength and skill. A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet,...still and bright, With something of an angel light. Such is the portrait which is amplified and placed in a hundred new lights in the PURITAN'S GRAVE.... | |
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