And the souls mounting up to God Went by her like thin flames. And still she bowed herself and stooped Out of the circling charm; Until her bosom must have made The bar she leaned on warm, And the lilies lay as if asleep Along her bended arm. From the... Household Friends for Every Season - Page 166by James Thomas Fields - 1864 - 327 pagesFull view - About this book
| Sir Hall Caine - 1883 - 330 pages
...flames. / t / / ' / •-• And still she bowed herself and stooped ./ Out of the circling charm ; Until her bosom must have made The bar she leaned...the lilies lay as if asleep Along her bended arm. The sense induced by such imagery is akin to that which comes of rapt contemplation of the deep emblazonings... | |
| 1883 - 884 pages
...from the gold bar of heaven." "And still she bowed herself and stooped Out of the circling charm ; Until her bosom must have made The bar she leaned...the lilies lay as if asleep Along her bended arm." It was said once by a writer anxious to make out a case against the preRaphaelite school of modern... | |
| 1883 - 948 pages
...from the gold bar of heaven." " And still she bowed herself and stooped Out of the eircling charm ; Until her bosom must have made The bar she leaned...the lilies lay as if asleep Along her bended arm." It was said once by a writer anxious to make out a case against the pre-Raphaelite school of modern... | |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1883 - 196 pages
...The which is space begun. ****** And still she bowed herself and stooped Out of the circling charm, Until her bosom must have made The bar she leaned on warm, And the lilies lay as if asleep, 35 " I wish that he were come to me, For he will come," she said. " Have I not prayed in Heaven? on... | |
| Burlington Fine Arts Club, Henry Virtue Tebbs - 1883 - 70 pages
...The which is space begun. ****** And still she bowed herself and stooped Out of the circling charm, Until her bosom must have made The bar she leaned on warm, And the lilies lay as if asleep, " I wish that he were come to me, For he will come," she said. " Have I not prayed in Heaven! on earth... | |
| 1885 - 668 pages
...God Went by her like thin flames. And still she bowed herself and stopped Out of the circling charm; Until her bosom must have made The bar she leaned...worlds. Her gaze still strove Within the gulf to pierce The path ; and now she spoke as when The stars sang in their spheres. " I wish that he were come to... | |
| Thomas Young Crowell - 1885 - 702 pages
...and stopped Out of the circling charm; Until her bosom must have made The bar she leaned on wartn, And the lilies lay as if asleep Along her bended arm....fixed place of heaven she saw Time like a pulse shake fieree Through all the worlds. Her ga1e still strove Within the gulf to pieree The path; and now she... | |
| Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1887 - 566 pages
...think, lies in the feeling that even in heaven the maiden, as on earth, is so real, so living, that " her bosom must have made The bar she leaned on warm " ; and that her terrestrial love and yearning are more to her than all the joys of Paradise. The poet, moreover,... | |
| Ainsworth Rand Spofford - 1888 - 420 pages
...God, Went by her like thin Harnes. And still she bowed herself, and stooped Out of the circling charm, Until her bosom must have made The bar she leaned on warm, And the lilies lay ая if asleep, Along her bended arm. From the fixed place of heaven she saw Time like a pulse shake... | |
| 1889 - 1068 pages
...is it the semi-orthodox twaddle of a reactionary sentimentalist. No such person could have written : From the fixed place of Heaven she saw Time, like a pulse, shake fierce Through all the worlds. I can understand a critic disliking The Blessed Damozel on many grounds ; I cannot understand any critic... | |
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