The twilight hours, like birds, flew by, As lightly and as free ; Ten thousand stars were in the sky, Ten thousand on the sea : , For every wave with dimpled face, That leaped upon the air, Had caught a star in its embrace And held it trembling there. Arthur's Magazine - Página 247editado por - 1845Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Joseph Haven - 1857 - 612 páginas
...description, and the creations of the conccptive faculty, may be shown by reference to a single example : " The twilight hours, like birds, flew by, As lightly...thousand in the sea ; For every wave, with dimpled cheek, That leaped upon the air, Had caught a star in its embrace, And held it trembling there." The... | |
| 1857 - 818 páginas
...by one the stars began to take their places above and beneath. " For every wave with dimpled cheek, That leaped upon the air, Had caught a star in its embrace, And held it trembling there." It was Saturday night. It seemed like holy time, so calm and solemn was the death of that day. Just... | |
| J. H. B. - 1850 - 234 páginas
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| Joseph Haven - 1858 - 618 páginas
...conceptive faculty, may be shown by reference to a single example : " The twilight hours, like birds, flow by, As lightly and as free ; Ten thousand stars were...thousand in the sea ; For every wave, with dimpled cheek, That leaped upon the air, Had caught a star in its embrace, And held it trembling there," The... | |
| Amelia - 1858 - 304 páginas
...caught Their sprinkled drops of dew, They kissed my .feet, and, quick as thought, Away the ripples flew. The twilight hours, like birds, flew by, As lightly...; Ten thousand stars were in the sky, Ten thousand on the sea ; For every wave with dimpled face, That leaped upon the air, Had caught a star in its embrace,... | |
| S.D. Harris - 1858 - 400 páginas
...Proctor has accomplished what Mrs. Welby so beautifully pictures, of the star-lit sea, where she says : For every wave with dimpled face That leaped upon the air, Had caught a Htar in it« embrace, And held it trembling there I So it is with these snatched paragraphs, that else... | |
| Mary Forrest - 1861 - 574 páginas
...hours, like birds, flew by, As lightly and as free ; Ten thousand stars were in the sky, Ten thousand on the sea ; For every wave with dimpled face, That leaped upon the air, Had caught a star in its emhrace, And held it trembling there. The young moon too, with upturned sides, Her mirrored beauty... | |
| Joseph Haven - 1865 - 612 páginas
...reference to a single example : " The twilight hours, like birds, flew by, As lightly and as (roe ; Ten thousand stars were in the sky, Ten thousand in the sea ; For every wave, with dimpled cheek, That leaped upon the air, Had caught a shir in its embrace, And held it trembling there." The... | |
| Mary Forrest - 1866 - 564 páginas
...caught Their sprinkled drops of dew, They kissed my feet, and quick as thought, Away the ripples flew. The twilight hours, like birds, flew by, As lightly...; Ten thousand stars were in the sky, Ten thousand on the sea ; For every wave with dimpled face, That leaped upon the air, Had caught a star in its embrace,... | |
| James Wood Davidson - 1869 - 650 páginas
...hours, like birds, flew by, As lightly and as free ; Ten thousand stars were in the sky, Ten thousand on the sea ; For every wave, with dimpled face, That...star in its embrace, And held it trembling there. And this itself recalls a couplet in Colardeau's Epttre & M. Duliamel, which runs in this wise : —... | |
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