 The fringed lids of hazel eyes, With soft brown tresses overblown. Ah ! memories of sweet summer eves, Of moonlit wave and willowy way, Of stars and flowers, and dewy leaves, And smiles and tones more dear than they!  The Century: 1902 - Page 151902Full view - About this book
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1844 - 136 pages
...and willowy way, Of stars, and flowers, and dewy leaves, And smiles and tones more dear than they ! Ere• this thy quiet eye hath smiled :. My picture of thy youth to see, Whcuvhalf a woman, half a child, Tin• very artlessness beguiled, ••., And folly's self seemed... | |
 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1893 - 482 pages
...lady of Calvinistic tendencies, from whom he seems to have been long parted, contain this passage: " Ere this, thy quiet eye hath smiled My picture of...artlessness beguiled, And folly's self seemed wise in thee." * « " Memories," Poetical Works, Vol. II. p. 96. • His chief work, as we have seen, he believed... | |
 | Anna U. Russell - 1853 - 580 pages
...and willowy way, Of stars, and flowers, and dewy leaves, And smiles and tones more dear than they ! Ere this thy quiet eye hath smiled, My picture of...artlessness beguiled, And folly's self seemed wise in tneo I too can smile, when o'er that hour The lights of memory backward stream, Yet feel, the while,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1855 - 690 pages
...stars and flowers and dewy leaves. And smiles and tones more dear than they! 402 JOHN G. WHITTIER. 403 Ere this thy quiet eye hath smiled My picture of thy...youth to see, When half a woman, half a child, Thy тегу artlessness beguiled, And folly's self seem'd wise in thee. I too can smile, when o'er that... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1873 - 420 pages
...and willowy way, Of stars and flowers, and dewy leaves, And smiles and tones more dear than they ! Ere this, thy quiet eye hath smiled My picture of...in thee ; I too can smile, when o'er that hour The lightsof memory backward stream, Yet feel the while that manhood's power Is vainer than my boyhood's... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1873 - 424 pages
...and willowy way, Of stars and flowers, and dewy leaves, And smiles and tones more dear than they ! Ere this, thy quiet eye hath smiled My picture of...to see, When, half a woman, half a child, Thy very nrtlessness beguiled, And folly's self seemed wise in thee ; I too can smile, when o'er that hour The... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1873 - 730 pages
...and flowers and dewv leaves, And smiles and tones more dear than they ' Ere this thy quiet eye bath smiled My picture of thy youth to see, When half a woman, half a child, Thy very artlessneus beguiled, And folly's self seem'd wise in thee. I too can smile, when o'er that hour The... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1874 - 500 pages
...flowers, and dewy leaves, And smiles and tones more dear than they ! When, half a woman, half a child, Ere this, thy quiet eye hath smiled My picture of thy youth to see, Thy very artlessness beguiled, I too can smile, when o'er that hour The lights of memory hackward •treara,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1876 - 418 pages
...Of stars and flowers, and dewy leaves, And smiles and tones more dear than they! Ere this, thy qniet eye hath smiled My picture of thy youth to see, When,...in thee ; I too can smile, when o'er that hour The lightsof memory backward stream, Yet feel the while that manhood's power Is vainer than my boyhood's... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1876 - 316 pages
...willowy way, Of stars and flowers, and dewy leaves. And smiles and tones more dear than they ! 108 l00 Ere this, thy quiet eye hath smiled My picture of thy youth to nee, \ViR-n, half a woman, half a child. Thy very artlessuess beguiled, -And folly's self seemed wise... | |
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