 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 Etonian - Pagina 1241824Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 488 pagina’s
...delight," * 1 Vol. ip 209. 2 Vol. ii. p. 100. : — " She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight ; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament ; written in the third year of his married life. From these verses let him proceed to the following... | |
 | 1851 - 486 pagina’s
...Page 123.J CHAPTER IX. THE SACRISTAN'S MARIK. "She was a phantom of delight, When first she gleamed upon my sight ; A 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... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1852 - 450 pagina’s
...the charm of whose character might be supposed the express result of the element we are observing ! " She was a phantom of delight When first she gleam'd...lovely apparition sent To be a moment's ornament. I saw her, upon nearer view, A spirit, yet a woman too ! A countenance in which did meet Sweet records,... | |
 | R. K. Narayan - 1980 - 192 pagina’s
...hurriedly over it and filled a whole page beginning: "She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight: A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament." It went on for thirty lines ending: "And yet a spirit still, and bright With something of an angel-light."... | |
 | Saskatchewan. Department of Education - 1910 - 260 pagina’s
...Mariner. (6) State the moral lesson of the poem. 4. She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight ; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a...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... | |
 | Herbert Lockyer - 1988 - 324 pagina’s
...place in his heart because of his mother's death. She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's...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... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pagina’s
...POETRY QUOTATIONS She Was a Phantom of Delight 133 She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed ive (1. 1—4) 134 A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows,... | |
 | Jim Geoghan - 1993 - 92 pagina’s
...nature, rainbows, life, women ... (From memory.) "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, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn;... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1994 - 628 pagina’s
...Evening resting-place. 'She was a Phantom of delight' She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's...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... | |
 | Alan Ayckbourn - 1973 - 102 pagina’s
...English Verse. It made me sound terribly knowledgeable. Only the first two lines, mind you, nothing else. "She was a phantom of delight when first she gleam'd upon my sight" Wordsworth. JOAN. You could always work for your brother-in-law. LEONARD. I could. But I won't. JOAN.... | |
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