 THAT which her slender waist confined, Shall now my joyful temples bind; No monarch but would give his crown His arms might do what this has done. It was my Heaven's extremest sphere, The pale which held that lovely deer; My joy, my grief, my hope, my...  English Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans - Page 175by Anne Hollingsworth Wharton - 1915 - 313 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 844 pages
...which held that lovely deer. My joy, my grief, my hope, my love, Did all within this circle move ! A narrow compass ! and yet there Dwelt all that's good, and all that's fair ; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round. GO, LOVELY ROSE. Go, lovely Rose ! Tell her that... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 380 pages
...cannot say of it what was said, by a sweet poet, of the ribbon that encircled his mistress's waist — " A narrow compass, and yet there Dwelt all that's good, and all that's fair." Minor poetry, however pleasing or perfect, must never be exalted to the same level with the sublimer... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 384 pages
...cannot say of it what was said, by a sweet poet, of the ribbon that encircled his mistress's waist— " A narrow compass, and yet there Dwelt all that's good, and all that's fair." Minor poetry, however pleasing or perfect, must never be exalted to the same level with the sublimer... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pages
...pale which held that lovely deer: My joy, my grief, my hope, my love, Did all within this circle move! I heard her say, That she would never miss one day A walk so fine, a sight so gay. FAIREST piece of well-form'd earth ! Urge not thus your haughty birth ; The power which you have o'er... | |
 | 1871 - 808 pages
...Richard Lovelace, Gray, Andrew Marvell, and others, are remembered chiefly by a few happy lines apiece. " Give me but what this ribbon bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round." It is this exquisite couplet which may be said to have kept Waller alive. It is an awkw.ard thing to... | |
 | 1871 - 880 pages
...Lovelace, Gray, Andrew Marvell, and others, are remembered chiefly by a few happy lines apiece. •• Git* me but what this ribbon bound. Take all the rest the sun goes rouuj." It is this exquisite couplet which may be said to have kept Waller alive. It is an awkward... | |
 | 1841 - 178 pages
...pale which held that lovely dear; My joy, my grief, my hope, my love, Did all within this circle move. A narrow compass, and yet there Dwelt all that's good, and all that's fair: Give me but what this riban bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round. WALLEB. 0 Innocence! white- bosom'd purity! Sweet... | |
 | Gift - 1846 - 268 pages
...lovely dear ; My joy, my grief, my hope, my love, Did all within this circle move. A narrow compass I and yet there Dwelt all that's good, and all that's...ribbon bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round. WALLER. TO THE NIGHTINGALE. O NIGHTINGALE, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...which held that lovely deer; My joy, my grief, my hope, my love, Did all within this circle move ! ambers Robert" Robert Chambers( On t)ie Marriage of the Dvarfi. Design or chance makes others wive, But Nature did this match contrive... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...pale which held that lovely deer; My joy, my grief, my hope, my love, Did all within this circle move! composed of sounds, about them everywhere. The throstle, with shrill sharps (iive me but what this ribbon bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round. On tlte Ma.riTO.gt of Ike... | |
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