 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...the circling charm; Until her bosom must have made The bar she leaned on warm, And the lilies lay as if asleep Along her bended arm. From the fixed place...she spoke as when The stars sang in their spheres. " I wish that he were come to me, For he will come," she said. ''Have I not prayed in heaven? — on... | |
 | James Thomas Fields - American literature - 1864 - 458 pages
...worlds that swarm ; Until her bosom must have made The bar she leaned on warm, And the lilies lay as if asleep Along her bended arm. From the fixed place...pierce Its path ; and now she spoke, as when The stars sung in their spheres. The sun was gone now. The curled moon Was like a little feather Fluttering far... | |
 | 1868 - 418 pages
...* # " And the souls, mounting up to God Went by her like thin flames. * * * # * "From the fixt hill of heaven she saw Time, like a pulse, shake fierce Through all the worlds." This is the finely imagined scenery of the poem. Her soliloquy will not bear division. She draws a... | |
 | 1870 - 764 pages
...yet worthier of note than these. What higher imagination can be found in modern verse than this ? " From the fixed place of heaven she saw Time like a pulse shake fierce Through all the worlds." This grandeur of scale and sweep of spirit give greatness of style to poetry, as well as sweetness... | |
 | England - 1870 - 816 pages
...the circling charm, Until her bosom must have made, The bar she leaned on warm, And the lilies lay as if asleep, Along her bended arm. From the fixed place of heaven she saw Time like a puhe shake fierec Through all the worlds. Her gaze still strove Within the gulf to pierce Its path... | |
 | 1870 - 856 pages
...the circling charm. Until her bosom must have mode. The bar she leaned on warm, And the lilies lay as if asleep, Along her bended arm. From the fixed place of heaven she saw Time like a pulau fliafojterc* Through nil the worlds. Her gaze still strove Within the gulf to pierce Its path... | |
 | 1870 - 770 pages
...than these. What higher imagination can be found in modern verse than this ? " From the fixed placo of heaven she saw Time like a. pulse shake fierce Through all the wurlds." This grandeur of scale and sweep of spirit give greatness of style to poetry, as well as sweetness... | |
 | Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1871 - 314 pages
...the circling charm ; Until her bosom must have made The bar she leaned on warm, And the lilies lay as if asleep Along her bended arm. From the fixed place...she spoke as when The stars sang in their spheres. The sun was gone now ; the curled moon Was like a little feather Fluttering far down the gulf ; and... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...the circling charm ; Until her bosom must have made The bar she leaned on warm, And the lilies lay as l n l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l o o o o o o o o o o o o m l l o o o o l l l The path ; and now she spoke as when The stars sang in their spheres. " I wish that he were come to... | |
 | Henry Vaughan - English literature - 1871 - 492 pages
...Went by her like thin flames. From the fixed plaee of Heaven she taw Time like a pulse shake Jleree Through all the Worlds : Her gaze still strove Within the gulf to pieree Its path ; and now she spoke as when The stars sang in their spheres. And this from " The Portrait... | |
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And the souls mounting up to God Went by her like thin flames. And still she bowed herself and stooped Out of the circling charm ; Until her bosom must have made The bar she leaned on warm, And the lilies lay as if asleep Along her bended arm. From the... 
