Had half impair'd the nameless grace Which waves in every raven tress, Or softly lightens o'er her face ; Where thoughts serenely sweet express How pure, how dear their dwelling-place. And on that cheek, and o'er that brow, So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,... The Modern Student's Book of English Literature - Page 389by Harry Morgan Ayres, Frederick Morgan Padelford - 1924 - 898 pagesFull view - About this book
| Women - 1865 - 380 pages
...tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. One shade the more, one ray the less, Had half impair'd the nameless grace Which waves in every raven tress,...peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent. Byron. How bravely thou becom'st thy bed ! Fresh lily ! And whiter than the sheets ! That I might touch... | |
| English poetry - 1866 - 392 pages
...tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. One shade the more, one ray the less, Had half impaired the nameless grace Which waves in every raven tress,...peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent. SONG. HERE be none of Beauty's daughters With a magic like thee ; And like music on the waters Is thy... | |
| Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 pages
...•. . . which heaven to gaudy day denies. One shade the more, one ray the less, . had half impair'd the nameless grace, which waves in every raven tress,...peace with all below, a heart whose love is innocent! LORD BYRON ON TIME . . ' I "'IME wasteth yeeres, and months and howr's: JL time doth consume fame,... | |
| Teresa Guiccioli (contessa di) - Poets, English - 1869 - 676 pages
...tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. One shade the more, one ray the less, Had half impair'd the nameless grace Which waves in every raven tress,...peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent! " Behold in these charming lines, 55 continues Gait," a perfect sample of his ethereal admiration,... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. One shade the more, one ray the less Had half impaired LORD BYRON. GASTARA. LIKE the violet, which alone Prospers in some happy shade, îfy Ca-stara lives... | |
| Asahel Clark Kendrick - English poetry - 1871 - 484 pages
...heaven to gaudy day denies. One shade the more, one ray the less, Had half impaired the nameless gr-ice Which waves in every raven tress, Or softly lightens...peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent. LORD BYRC x. Hymn of the Hebrew Maid. WHEN Israel, of the Lord beloved, Out from the land of bondage... | |
| English poetry - 1871 - 476 pages
...tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. One shade the more, one ray the less, Had half impaired the nameless grace Which waves in every raven tress,...in goodness spent, A mind at peace with all below, f A heart whose love is innocent. LORD BYRON. i Hymn of the Hebrew Maid. WHEN Israel, of the Lord beloved,... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1872 - 292 pages
...tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. One shade the more, one ray the less, Had half impair'd the nameless grace Which waves in every raven tress,...But tell of days in goodness spent, A mind at peace witn- all below, A heart whose love is innocent ! THE HARP THE MONARCH MINSTREL SWEPT. (Set to Music... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873 - 384 pages
...tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. One shade the more, one ray the less, Had half impair'd the nameless grace Which waves in every raven tress,...tints that glow, But tell of days in goodness spent, THE HARP THE MONARCH MINSTREL SWEPT. I. THE harp the monarch minstrel swept, The King of men, the loved... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1874 - 584 pages
...tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. One shade the more, one ray the less, Had half impaired the nameless grace Which waves in every raven tress,...peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent. ANATHEMATA. BYRON. "O maiden! come into port bravely, or nail with God the seas." Fresh as the morning,... | |
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