MAIDENHOOD. mAIDEN ! with the meek brown eyes, In whose orbs a shadow lies, Like the dusk in evening skies ! Thou whose locks outshine the sun, Golden tresses, wreathed in one, As the braided streamlets run ! Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook... The Southern literary messenger - Página 571842Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Winifred Taylor - 1870 - 270 páginas
...her husband, with a remorseful sigh, consented to part with his sunbeam for a whole year. CHAPTER IX. Standing with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet ! j|HE preparations for Lucy's departure had already begun. Mrs. Mason had been one •whole day shopping... | |
| Dinah Maria Mulock Craik - 1870 - 432 páginas
...yet to go through it all. For, let poets talk as they will of that charming time in which a girl is " Standing with reluctant feet Where the brook and river meet — * Womanhood and childhood sweet," the years between twelve and twenty are, to most, a season any thing but pleasant ; a crisis... | |
| 1871 - 476 páginas
...brown eyes, In whose orbs a shadow lies, Like the dusk in evening skies ! Thou whose locks outshine the sun, Golden tresses wreathed in one, As the braided...brooklet's swift advance, On the river's broad expanse ! MAIDENHOOD. 195 Deep and still that gliding stream Beautiful to thee must seem As the river of a... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1871 - 656 páginas
...brown eyes In whose orbs a shadow lies, Like the dusk in evening skies ! Thou whose locks outshine the sun, Golden tresses, wreathed in one, As the braided streamlets run I Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet ! Gazing,... | |
| Acrostics - 1871 - 312 páginas
...as a wall, or stretch Far o'er the water, hung with groves of beech." 3. " Thou whose locks outshine the sun, Golden tresses wreathed in one, As the braided streamlets run." 4. " What lit your eyes with tearful power, Like moonlight, or a falling shower ?" 0. " Now 'gan the... | |
| 1872 - 660 páginas
...brown eyes, In whose orbs a shadow lies Like the dusk in evening skies ! Thou whose locks outshine the sun, — Golden tresses, wreathed in one, As the...broad expanse ! Deep and still, that gliding stream Beantiful to thee must seem As the river of a dream. Then why pause with indecision, When bright angels... | |
| Treasury - 1872 - 166 páginas
...meek, brown eyes, In whose orbs a shadow lies Like the dusk in evening skies! Thou whose locks outshine the sun, Golden tresses, wreathed in one, As the braided...brooklet's swift advance, On the river's broad expanse ! Deep-and still, that gliding stream Beautiful to thee must seem, As the river of a dream. Then why... | |
| 1872 - 900 páginas
...brown eyes, In whose orbs a shadow lies Like the dusk in evening skies I Thou whose locks outshine llen" I Gazing, with a timid glance, On the brooklet's swift advance, On the river's broad expanse ! Deep... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1872 - 730 páginas
...brown eyes In whose orbs a shadow lies, Like the dusk in evening skies ! Thou whose locks outshine the sun, Golden tresses, wreathed in one, As the braided...brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet 1 Gazing, with a timid glance, On the brooklet's swift advance, On the river's broad expanse ! Deep... | |
| 1872 - 278 páginas
...brown eyes, In whose orbs a shadow lies, Like the dusk in evening skies ! Thou whose locks outshine the sun, Golden tresses, wreathed in one, As the braided...brook and river meet ! Womanhood and childhood fleet ! — do you speak of such a one as practicing this thing ? A. My dear sir, have you read Shakspeare's... | |
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