 MAIDEN ! with the meek, brown eyes, In whose orbs a shadow lies Like the dusk in evening skies ! Thou whose locks outshine the sun, Golden tresses, wreathed in one, As the braided streamlets run ! Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river...  Bentley's Miscellany - Page 2251861Full view - About this book
 | Cycle - 1871 - 202 pages
...Thou whose locks outshine the sun, Golden tresses wreathed in one, As the braided streamlets run ! Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet ! Gazing, with a timid glance, On the brooklet's swift advance, On the river's broad expanse ! Deep... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1872 - 730 pages
...Thou whose locks outshine the sun, Golden tresses, wreathed in one, As the braided streamlets run ! Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet 1 Gazing, with a timid glance, On the brooklet's swift advance, On the river's broad expanse ! Deep... | |
 | 1872 - 278 pages
...Thou whose locks outshine the sun, Golden tresses, wreathed in one, As the braided streamlets run ! Standing with reluctant feet Where the brook and river meet ! Womanhood and childhood fleet ! — do you speak of such a one as practicing this thing ? A. My dear sir, have you read Shakspeare's... | |
 | Jane Sergeant - 1872 - 270 pages
...breeze, and chill as the starlight in its responses to the heart's inmost need. CHAPTER VI. A NEW HOME. " Standing with reluctant feet Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood, and childhood fleet." — LONGFELLOW. THE little town of Annesley stood on the slope of a pine-crowned hill on the borders... | |
 | 1872 - 800 pages
...poem, that she was " seven times one to-day." " Seven times two." A young girl with dreamy eyes, " Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood, and childhood fleet," told the longings and aspirations of that sweet May-time of life. " Seven times three," — a blushing... | |
 | Treasury - 1872 - 166 pages
...Thou whose locks outshine the sun, Golden tresses, wreathed in one, As the braided streamlets run ! Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet!. Gazing, with a timid glance, On the brooklet's swift advance, On the river's broad expanse ! Deep-and... | |
 | Violet Fane - 1872 - 160 pages
...then Leave but my hollow shell for other men, And give Him, with my Life and Love, — my Soul! DAWN. 'Standing with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet ! ' LONGFELLOW. THE poetry that lies within the soul Cannot be written, nay, the greatest poet Is he... | |
 | Adeline Dutton T. Whitney - 1872 - 296 pages
...beauty, and the south-west room at the old house was given up to Mr. Armstrong. CHAPTER XX. PAUL. " Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet!" — Longfellow. GLORY had not been content with the utmost she could find to do in making the south-west... | |
 | Maggie Symington - 1872 - 474 pages
...MARJORY. Maiden ! with the meek, brown eyes, In whose orb a shadow lies Like the dusk in evening skies ! Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet ! " WERE the task given to each of us to tell the story of our lives, few, I presume, would begin with... | |
 | Ouida - 1903 - 428 pages
...face with her soft clear eyes. She was like No matter ! you have seen that crayon-head, it is but a portrayal of a face whose expression Raphael and Sassoferrato...Heavens, I am quoting poetry ! what will you think of me, to have gone back to the Wertherian and Tennysonian days so far as to repeat a triplet of Longfellow's... | |
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