 | Frederick Denison Maurice, John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - Great Britain - 1848 - 284 pages
...silent sympathy. *«*'*•• And she shall beud her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dniice their wayward round, And beauty, born of murmuring sound, Shall pass into her face.' Those who live in towns should carefully remember this, for their own sakes, for their wives' sakes,... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 434 pages
...midnight shall be dear To her ; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place, Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring...was done— How soon my Lucy's race was run. ! She dicd, and left to me This heath, this calm and quiet scene ; The memory of what has been, And never... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1849 - 668 pages
...In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound And vital feelings of delight Shall rear her form...this happy dell." Thus Nature spake — The work was doneHow soon my Lucy's race was run ! She died, and left to me This heath, this calm, and quiet scene... | |
 | Lydia Maria Child - 1849 - 298 pages
...towhomNature was "both law and impulse": " She shall lean her ear In many a secret place, Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And Beauty, born of murmuring sound, Shall pass into her face." The engraved likeness of Ole Bui often reminds me of these lines. It seems listening to one of his... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...shall lean her car In many a secret place, Where rivulets dance their wayward round. And beauty bom of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face. And vital...in this happy dell." Thus Nature spake — The work wa« doneHow soon my Lucy's race was run I She died, and left to me This heath, this calm, and quiet... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1850 - 298 pages
...midnight shall be dear To her ; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place, Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face." Keats speaks of " music yearning like a god in pain," and in the Eve of St. Agnes, alluding to the... | |
 | Literature - 1850 - 550 pages
...midnight shall be dear To her ; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place, Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face." The mere fine expression of a single sentiment or sensation is not yet poetry, it is only beginning... | |
 | Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1850 - 252 pages
...midnight shall be dear To her ; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place ; Whore rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty, born of murmuring sound, Shall pass into her fuce." WORDSWORTH. These lines have occurred to me again and again, as I looked on the face of her... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...midnight shall be dear To her ; and she shall lean her ear, In many a secret place, Where rivulets dance their wayward round ; And beauty, born of murmuring...she and I together live, Here in this happy dell." AN APRIL DAY. 191 Thus Nature spake — The work was done — How soon my Lucy's race was run : She... | |
 | Art - 1851 - 490 pages
...midnight shall be dear To her ; and she shall lean her ear, In many a secret place, Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And Beauty, born of murmuring sound, Shall pass into her face." And, in the same manner, the statue of a great and good man fills the beholder with aspirations after a... | |
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... 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 lean her... 
