...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 in the sky, Ten thousand in the sea ; For every wave, with dimpled cheek, That leaped upon the air, Had caught a star in its...

...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...

...linked their hands, but, ere I caught Their sprinkled drops of dew, They kissed my feet, and quick aa thought, Away the ripples flew. The twilight hours,...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...

...used at least, recalls Mrs. Welby's fairy-like conceit, in some lines which she calls Musings : — The twilight hours, like birds, flew by, As lightly...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 : —...

...dimpled hands — They link'd their hands, but, ere I caught Their sprinkled drops of dew, They kiss'd my feet, and, quick as thought,. Away the ripples...on the sea; For every wave with dimpled face, That leap'd upon the air, Had caught a star in its embrace, And held it trembling there. The young moon...

...description, and the creations of the conoeptive faculty, may be shown by reference to a single example : " The twilight hours, like birds, flew by, As lightly and as free ; Ten thousand stars were in tl.i sky, Ten thousand in the sea ; For every wave, with dimpled cK-olc That leaped upon the air, Had...

...new heaven was arch'd and glass'd below. JG PERCITAL. For every wave, with dimpled face, That leap'd upon the air, Had caught a star in its embrace, And held it trembling there! MRS. AMELIA B. WBLBT. OFFENCE. In such a time as this, it is not meet That every nice offence should...

...them in the same syllable must be different. Example of alternate Rhyme : " The twilight hourPlike birds flew by, As lightly and as free ; Ten thousand stars were in the sky, Ten thousand in the sea ; And every wave with dimpled face That leaped up in the air, Had caught a star in its embrace,...

...in his head? — Shaktpeare. 123. Flowers are stars, wherein wondrous truths are made manifest, 124. The twilight hours like birds flew by, As lightly...free; 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 star in its embrace,...

...no more, sweet ; I am Jamie, Home returned to love and thee." DAVID MACBETH MOIR. TWILIGHT AT SEA. THE twilight hours, like birds, flew by, As lightly...star in its embrace, And held it trembling there. AMELIA B. WELBY. FLOTSAM AND JETSAM. THE sea crashed over the grim gray rocks, It thundered beneath...