The World of fashion and continental feuilletons [afterw.] The Ladies' monthly magazine, The World of fashion [afterw.] Le Monde élégant; or The World of fashion

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1867
 

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Seite 3 - Of honey pure and deep, thine early form Was not the investiture of daily men, But thou didst wear a glory in thy look From inward converse with the spirit of love ; And thou hadst won in the first strife of youth Trophies that gladdened hope, and pointed on To days when we should stand and minister...
Seite 21 - There is a gentle purity that breathes In such a one, mingled with chaste respect, And modest pride of her own excellence, — A shrinking nature, that is so adverse To aught unseemly, that I could as soon Forget the sacred love I owe to heaven, As dare, with impure thoughts, to taint the air Inhaled by such a being : than whom, my liege, Heaven cannot look on anything more holy, Or earth be proud of anything more fair.

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