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" SHE was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of twilight fair; Like twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the... "
The works of mrs Hemans; with a memoir of her life, by her sister [H.M. Owen]. - Page 12
by Felicia Dorothea Hemans - 1844
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Memoirs of William Wordsworth, Volume 1

Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 506 pages
...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...
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The Parlour magazine of the literature of all nations, Volume 1

1851 - 486 pages
...ENTAIL. FEOM THE SWEDISH OF EMILIE H. CABLES. fCoallmedfrom Page 123.J CHAPTER IX. THE SACRISTAN'S MARIK. "She was a phantom of delight, When first she gleamed...lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament" Wordtuorlh. A FEW days after the preceding conversation between the Colonel and his son, the former...
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Memoirs of William Wordsworth, Volume 1

Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 524 pages
...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 To be a moment's ornament ; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair ; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair ; 1 written in the third...
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Gift for Young Ladies

1850 - 140 pages
...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 ornament ; Her eyes as stars of twilight fair ; Like twilight's, too, her dusky hair ; But all things else about...
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The Dublin Review, Volume 31

Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1851 - 636 pages
...too her 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. " I saw her upon nearer view, A spirit, yet a woman too ! Her household motions light aud free, And...
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English Literature of the Nineteenth Century ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 pages
...twilight's, too, her dusky hair ; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn ; A dancing shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay. I saw her upon nearer view, A spirit, yet a woman too! Her household motions light and free, And sleps...
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Happy Evenings; Or, The Literary Institution at Home

Clara Lucas Balfour - 1851 - 352 pages
...of personal, mental, and moral graces : — " * She was a phantom of delight When first she gleam' d upon my sight— A lovely apparition sent To be a moment's ornament. , - Her eyes like stars of twilight fair — Like twilight too her dusky hair ; But all about her else...
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Memoirs of William Wordsworth, Poet-laureate, D. C. L.

Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 492 pages
...Twilight's, too, her dusky hair ; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn ; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and way-lay. " I saw her upon nearer view, A Spirit, yet a "Woman too! Her household motions light and free, And...
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Viola; or, 'Tis an old tale and often told, by I. Goldsmid, Volume 2

Isabel Goldsmid - 1852 - 228 pages
...in the "ars medendi;" but few are aware how oft it has swollen the bills of mortality. CHAPTEE III. She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed...lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament ; Her eyes as stars of twilight fair ; Like twilight too her dusky hair ; But all things else about...
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Viola; or, 'Tis an old tale and often told, by I. Goldsmid, Volume 2

Isabel Goldsmid - 1852 - 230 pages
...in the "ars inedendi;" but few are aware how oft it has swollen the bills of mortality. CHAPTEE III. She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed...lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of twilight fair ; Like twilight too her dusky hair; But all things else about her...
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