 Madonna-wise on either side her head; Sweet lips whereon perpetually did reign The summer calm of golden charity, Were fixed shadows of thy fixed mood, Revered Isabel, the crown and head, The stately flower of female fortitude, Of perfect wifehood and...  Southern Literary Messenger - Page 981856Full view - About this book
 | Bride - 1835 - 134 pages
...fane Of her still spirit ; — locks not wide dispread, Madonna-wise on either side her head ; — Sweet lips, whereon perpetually did reign The summer calm of golden charity. These were fixed shadows of thy fixed mood, Revered Isabel, the crown and head, The stately flower... | |
 | English literature - 1842 - 416 pages
...we cannot but choose to love her. x2 Locks not wide dispread, Madonna- wise on either side her head, Sweet lips whereon perpetually did reign The summer calm of golden charity, Were fixed shadows of thy fixed mood, Revered Isabel, the crown and head, The stately flower of female... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1843 - 260 pages
...translucent fane Of her still spirit ; locks not wide dispread, Madonna-wise on either side her head ; Sweet lips whereon perpetually did reign The summer calm of golden charity, Were fixed shadows of thy fixed mood, Revered Isabel, the crown and head, The stately flower of female... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...translucent fane Of her still spirit ; locks not wide dispread, Madonna-wise on either side her head ; Sweet lips whereon perpetually did reign The summer calm of golden charity, Were fixed shadows of thy fixed mood, Revered Isabel, the crown and head, The stately flower of female... | |
 | Elizabeth Caroline Grey - 1846 - 1042 pages
...personal observations. The speech too, was rendered more deserving of notice, as coming from those Sweet lips whereon perpetually did reign, The summer calm of golden charity. Is it, that purity in its most refined naturesuch as existed in the heart of that child, possesses... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...fane Of her still spirit, — locks not wide dispread, Madonna-wise on either side her head, — . Sweet lips, whereon perpetually did reign The summer calm of golden charity, Were fixed shadows of thy fixed mood, Revered Isabel, the crown and head, The stately flower of female... | |
 | 1847 - 592 pages
...bardlings. Lines such as these : " Eyes fed with the clear-pointed flame of chastity, »*'•»•* Sweet lips whereon perpetually did reign The summer calm of golden charity." Mariana is a conception strikingly evolved ; all the minute subsidiaries of " black moss" — "rusted... | |
 | Cigars - 1849 - 134 pages
...translucent fane Of her still spirit; locks not wide dispread, Madonna-wise, on either side her head ; Sweet lips, whereon perpetually did reign The summer calm of golden charity, Were fixed shadows of thy fixed mood, Revered Isabel, the crown and head, The stately flower of female... | |
 | 1849 - 508 pages
...translucent fane Of her still spirit ; locks not wide dispread, Madonna-wise, on either side her head ; Sweet lips, whereon perpetually did reign The summer calm of golden charity. Were fixed shadows of thy fixed mood, Revered Isabel, the crown and head, The stately flower of female... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1851 - 352 pages
...translucent fane Of her still spirit : locks not wide dispread, ]VIadonna-wise on either side her head ; Sweet lips, whereon perpetually did reign The summer calm of golden charity, Were fixed shadows of thy fired mood, Revered Isabel ! the crown and head, The stately flower of female... | |
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