 The floating clouds their state shall lend To her; for her the willow bend; Nor shall she fail to see Even in the motions of the Storm Grace that shall mould the Maiden's form By silent sympathy. 'The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall...  The North American Review - Page 366edited by - 1824Full view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - 1800 - 240 pages
...midnight shall be dear To her, and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets danee their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face. And vital feelings of delight Shall rear her form to stately height, Her virgin bosom swell, Such thoughts... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 356 pages
...willow bend, Nor shall she fail to see, Even in the motions of the storm, A beauty that shall mould her form By silent sympathy. " The stars of midnight shall...born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face. *' And vital feelings of delight Shall rear her form to stately height, Her virgin bosom swell, Such... | |
 | Lyre - 1806 - 204 pages
...the Storm Grace that shall mould the Maiden's form By silent sympathy. . . 128 WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. The stars of midnight shall be dear To her ; and she...born of murmuring Sound, Shall pass into her face. And vital feelings of delight Shall rear her form to stately height, Her virgin bosom swell ; Such... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 438 pages
...The Girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain. " She shall be sportive as...born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face. " And vital feelings of delight Shall rear her form to stately height, Her virgin bosom swell ; Such... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 442 pages
...The Girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain. " She shall be sportive as...born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face. " And vital feelings of delight Shall rear her form to stately height, Her virgin bosom swell ; Such... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1872 - 480 pages
...From social warblers gathering in Their harvest of sweet lays " ; and when he says of his Lucy, — " The stars of midnight shall be dear To her ; and she...beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face "; — in these lines we have four pure and perfect metaphors. Again : In Cymbeline, old Belarius says... | |
 | 1815 - 612 pages
...wraps the heart in a contagious softness, where shall we find them, if not in the Lyrical Ballads? " The stars of midnight shall be dear To her, and she...born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face." * * * * Thus Nature spake ; the work was done ; How soon my Lucy's race was run ! She died, and left... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1820 - 372 pages
...The Girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain. She shall be sportive as the...born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face. And vital feelings of delight Shall rear her form to stately height, Her virgin bosom swell ; Such... | |
 | Sir Charles Abraham Elton - 1820 - 136 pages
...11. — P. 82. His eye shall gaze the sunset's ruddy light, And grow enamour'd of the gliding moon. "The stars of midnight shall be dear To her, and she...born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face." — Thus Nature spoke : the work was done : — How soon my Lucy's race was run ! She died, and left... | |
 | 1822 - 666 pages
...the fine line* of Wordsworth, 635 " Andjehe shall lean her ear In many a secret plaoe. Where riv'lets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face." I have indulged in this latitude of quotation, Sir, because I wish to do all possible justice to this... | |
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