 | Anna Maria Porter - 1814 - 338 pages
...De Roye, " positively you shall not have this sash again j I will keep it to adorn my night-cap." " That which her slender waist confined, " Shall now my joyful temples bind : " What Monarch but would give his crown, «' His arms might do what this has done." A look from Theodore... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...visit mountains where they once did grow. The world's restorer once could not endure That finish'il Babel should those men secure, Whose pride design'd...arms might do what this has done. It was my Heaven's extremest sphere, The pale which held that lovely deer; My joy, my grief, my hope, my love Did all... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1819 - 644 pages
...throw A dart as white, a ball of new-fall'n snow. OAr A GIRDLE. THAT, which her slender waist confin'd, Shall now my joyful temples bind : No monarch but...arms might do what this has done. It was my Heaven's extremest sphere, The pale which held that lovely deer : My joy, my grief, my hope, my love, Did all... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 356 pages
...we now may prove, Take advice of present love, ON A GIRDLE. THAT, which her slender waist confin'd, Shall now my joyful temples bind : No monarch but...arms might do what this has done. It was my Heaven's extremest sphere, The pale which held that lovely deer : My joy, my grief, my hope, my love, Did all... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 280 pages
...child invade, And innocently at your white breast throw A dart as white, a ball of new-fallen snow, ON A GIRDLE. THAT which her slender waist confined,...arms might do what this has done. It was my heaven's extremest sphere, The pale which held that lovely deer. My joy, my grief, my hope, my love, Did all... | |
 | George Wentworth - English poetry - 1824 - 378 pages
...ne'er exceed two feet from morn till night. ON A LADY'S GIRDLE. That which her slender waist confin'd, Shall now my joyful temples bind ; No monarch but...crown His arms might do what this has done. It was my heav'n's extremest sphere, The pall which held that lovely dear ; My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 pages
...behind, And, wing'd with fear, outflies the wind. ON A GIRDLE. THAT which her slender waist confin'd Shall now my joyful temples bind : No monarch but would give his croivn His arms might do what this has done. It was my heaven's extremest sphere, The pale which held... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...in thee — IIov small a part of time they share That are so wondrous sweet and fair. O2f A G1P.DLE. THAT which her slender waist confined Shall now my...extremes! sphere, The pale which held that lovely dear, My joy, my grief, my hope, my love, Did all within this circle move. A narrow compass, and yet... | |
 | Ballads, English - 1835 - 378 pages
...won above, Her's could not stay for sympathy ! ON A GIRDLE. EDMUND WALLER. Born 1605— Died 1687. That which her slender waist confined, Shall now my...crown, His arms might do what this has done. It was my heav'n's extremest sphere, The pale which held my lovely dear : My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,... | |
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ON A GIRDLE THAT which her slender waist confined Shall now my joyful temples bind : No monarch but would give his crown His arms might do what this has done. It was my Heaven's extremest sphere, The pale which held that lovely deer : My joy, my grief,... 
