...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...dusky hair, But all 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....

...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...

...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,...

...cured — Lassie, lie near me! (Chorus) ROBERT BURNS SCOTTISH (1759-1796) She was a Phantom of delight She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed...dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and way-lay. I...

...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,...

...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...

...Hampshire, to see what was said about her and found this quote beside the name of Mary Francis Murphy: Her eyes as stars of twilight fair; Like twilight's, too, her dusky hair. What an awesome, spontaneously, serendipitously discovered coincidence! Famous lines and sentiments...

...accompanied by a quotation from William Wordsworth, "Her eyes as stars of twilight fair. Like twilights too her dusky hair. / But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn" (Craftsman [ December i9i5]: np). It is included on Peat's i949 checklist...