 | Charles Mackay - 1858 - 420 psl.
...keep it spotless as it came. 817 J. Ji. SHE WAS A PHANTOM OF DELIGHT. SHE was a phantom of delim,t, When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely apparition, sent To 1x3 a moment's ornament. Her eyes as stars of twilight fair, Like Twilight's too her dusky hair; But... | |
 | D R. M'Nab - 1860 - 296 psl.
...in us both was the first thing and the most amiable and engaging ornament in our eyes. WILLIAM PENN. She was a phantom of delight, When, first, she gleamed...lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament ; A dancing shape, an image gay To haunt, to startle and waylay. I saw her, upon nearer view, A spirit,... | |
 | James Routledge - 1861 - 268 psl.
...the sycamore; again to look down on the happy revellers, as he repeated with marked emphasis : — " She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed...lovely apparition sent To be a moment's ornament." And thus he repeated Wordsworth's beautiful poem until he came to the latter part of the last stanza... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1861 - 560 psl.
...The bowers where Lucy played ; And thine too is the last green field That Lucy's eyes surveyed. 1799. She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight ; A lovely Apparition, sent To he a moment's ornament ; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair ;... | |
 | 1861 - 144 psl.
...Autumn's plaintive moan is heard From Summer's leafy shore. Zefa Lyndon. "SHE WAS A PHANTOM OF DELIGHT." SHE was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my Bight — A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament ; Her eyes as stars of twilight fair... | |
 | Augustus C. L. Arnold - 1868 - 304 psl.
...added, " let this commandery be closed. 'In nomeni Patris Filii, et Spiritns Sancti.'" THE SURPRISE. "SHE was a phantom of delight, When first she gleamed upon my sight ; A lovely apparition, sent To be my being's ornament." CHAPTER I. N the north part of the village, where our first scene transpired,... | |
 | English poetry - 1869 - 328 psl.
...sea : The boatmen rest their oars and say, Miserere Domine ! ST COLERIDGB. EXTRACTS FROM WORDSWORTH. SHE was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To he a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; But all things else about her drawn From... | |
 | Frederick William Robertson - 1870 - 860 psl.
...distinguish my poems hereafter from those of other poets, is this : that while other poets labored to exhibit that which distinguishes one man from another,...my concern to exhibit that which is common to all men.71 As a specimen of this, take that well-known poem : She was a phantom of delight, When first... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1871 - 642 psl.
...Apocalypse, The types and symhols of Eternity, Of first, and las^ and midst, and without end. 1799. SHE was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight ; A lovely Apparition, sent To he a moment's ornament ; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair ; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair... | |
 | 1871 - 114 psl.
...and we should probably have far less reason for the repentance which comes too late. CHAPTER HI. " She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight." the marriage, which was not to take place till after Geraldine was seventeen, her father said ; and... | |
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May-time's brightest, loveliest 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... 
