... as for a goddess, Who must be pillow'd, like high vesper, nightly On couch ethereal ! Be the curtains fleecy, Like vesper's fairest, when calm nights are breezy — Transparent, parting — showing what they hide, Or strive to veil — by mystery... A L'abri: Or The Tent Pitch'd - Page 112by Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1839 - 172 pagesFull view - About this book
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...gently fall, Slow-loosened from her form symmetrical— Like mist from sunlight! Burn, sweet odours, burn ! For incense at the altar of her pleasure !...measure ; And witchcrafts trance her wheresoe'er she turn ! II. BEAUTY VANISHED. A CREATURE beautiful as dew-dipp'd roses, Symmetric as the goddess sprung... | |
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...to veil — by mystery deified ! The floor, gold-carpet, that her zone and boddice May lie in honour where they gently fall, Slow loosened from her form...symmetrical — Like mist from sunlight. Burn, sweet odours, burn! For incense at the altar of her pleasure ! Let music breathe with a voluptuous measure,... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pages
...to veil — by mystery deified ! The floor, gold-carpet, that her zone and boddice May lie in honour where they gently fall, Slow loosened from her form...symmetrical — Like mist from sunlight. Burn, sweet odours, burn! For incense at the altar of her pleasure ! Let music, breathe with a voluptuous measure,... | |
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...parting — showing what they hide, Or strive to veil — by mystery deified 1 The floor, gold carpet, that her zone and boddice May lie in honor where they...measure, And witchcrafts trance her wheresoe'er she turn." LETTER XIII. THIS is not a very prompt answer to your last, my dear Doctor, for I intended to... | |
| Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1853 - 396 pages
...parting — showing what they hide, Or strive to veil — by mystery deified ! The floor, gold carpet, that her zone and boddice May lie in honor where they gently fell, Slow loosened from her form symmetrical — Like mist from sunlight. Burn, sweet odors, ban .... | |
| 1831 - 364 pages
...fall, Slow-loosened from her form symmetrical— Like mist from sunlight ! — burn, sweet odours, burn ! For incense at the altar of her pleasure !...voluptuous measure — And witchcrafts trance her whcreaoe'er she turn ! TW CADETS' HIONUMEUiT AT WEST POINT. FEW places in the United States present... | |
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