...Wordsworth, ed. Stephen Gill [Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984], 292), the first stanza of which reads: She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed...things else about her drawn From May-time and the chearful Dawn: A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and way-lay. 18. Maynard Solomon,...

...Wordsworth's images, in his lovely poem "She Was a Phantom of Delight," capture my feelings about Jane: She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed...lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; A Being breathing thought/ill breath, A Traveler between life and death; The reason firm, the temperate...

...that girl might live even today. Her name is Rebecca. You'll never forget her. PATRICIA REILLY GIFF Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's,...From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; A dancing Shape, and Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and way-lay. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH "WE ARE SEVEN" THE OLD STAGE COACH...

...spring" he tells us: I heard a thousand blended notes, When in a grove I sate reclined, Or, again, Or, She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; My heart leaps up when I behold, A rainbow in the skv: The artist manages to incorporate all the sounds,...

...have. 8. l am monarch of all l survey. 9. My heart leaps up when l behold a rainbow in the sky. 10. She was a phantom of delight when first she gleamed upon my sight. 1 1 . Never love unless you can bear with all the faults of man. 12. The belief that merit is neglected,...

...that the male lyric subject finds the muse alluring because she is more elusive than a real woman, "a dancing Shape, an Image gay / To haunt, to startle, and waylay." 46 Writing as the female "Shape" (Wordsworth's lines serve as the epigraph to a tribute to Osgood published...

...traveller's gaze has become a metaphor for the lover's (rather than the other way round). The woman becomes 'A dancing Shape, an Image gay, / To haunt, to startle, and waylay'; she is an 'apparition' of the dawn, which seems only at first to be 'a moment's ornament' (PW, 2:213),...

...Pergamon, New York, 1965; EM Lifshitz and LP Pitaevski, Statistical Physics, Vol. 2, Pergamon, New York, A dancing shape, an image, gay. To haunt, to startle, and waylay, JOHN MILTON, Phantom of Delight (1804) Path Integrals — Elementary Properties and Simple Solutions...

...not a bad idea; he's a pretty savvy fellow." "Thanks Stan. I'll let you know how I make out." Three She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely apparition, sent To be a moments ornament; William Wordsworth She Was a Phantom of Delight "For God's sake, you mean to tell...

...this "exquisite portrait," the most precious, perhaps, in English poetry of the nineteenth century' : "She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed...lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament. I saw her upon nearer view, A Spirit, yet a Woman too ! Her household motions light and free. And steps...