 Is thy name Mary, maiden fair ? Such should, methinks, its music be ; The sweetest name that mortals bear Were best befitting thee ; And she to whom it once was given, Was half of earth and half of heaven. I hear thy voice, I see thy smile, I look upon...  The Awakening of Mary Fenwick, a Novel - Page 1by Beatrice Whitby - 1892 - 334 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Joseph Tinker Buckingham, Edwin Buckingham, Samuel Gridley Howe, John Osborne Sargent, Park Benjamin - American literature - 1831 - 570 pages
...New-Hollander would attack women with prose — were the following. IB thy name Mary, maiden fair ? Such should, methinks, its music be ; The sweetest...once was given Was half of earth and half of heaven . I hear thy voice, I see thy smile, I look upon thy folded hair ; Ah ! while we dream not they beguile,... | |
 | Park Benjamin, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Osborne Sargent - Gift books - 1833 - 114 pages
...That wears for us the sweetest smile. IS THY NAME MARY, MAIDEN FAIR? Is thy name Mary, maiden fair ? Such should, methinks, its music be ; The sweetest...once was given Was half of earth and half of heaven. I hear thy voice, I see thy smile, I look upon thy folded hair: Ah ! while we dream not they beguile,... | |
 | Fashion - 740 pages
...being." In the French, Mary becomes Marie. Maria is another form of it. " Is thy name Mary, maiden fair ? Such should, methinks, its music be, The sweetest name that mortals bear Ii but befitting thee I" Matilda is from the Greek, and signifies noble or stately. Maranda (admired)... | |
 | 1839 - 580 pages
...metbinks, its inueick be The sweetest name that moríala bear Were best befitting tbec — And ehe to whom it once was given Was half of earth and half of heaven. I hear thy voice, I see thy smile, I look upon thy folded hoir ; Ah ! while we dream not they beguile,... | |
 | Fashion - 1868 - 738 pages
...being." In the French, Mary becomes Marie. Maria is another form of it. " Is thy name Mary, maiden fair? Such should, methinks, its music be, The sweetest name that mortals bear Is but befitting thee I" Matilda is from the Greek, and signifies noble or stately. Maranda (admired)... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1842 - 638 pages
...Or some sweet angel, likest thee ! L'INCONNUE. la thy name MART, maiden fair? Such should, mcthinks, its music be ; The sweetest name that mortals bear,...once was given, Was half of earth and half of heaven. I hear thy voice, I see thy smile, I look upon thy folded hair; Ah ! while we dream not they beguile,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - Medicine in literature - 1850 - 310 pages
...thy spirit with me be, Or some sweet angel, likest thee ! L'INCONNUE. Is thy name Mary, maiden fair ? Such should, methinks, its music be ; The sweetest...once was given, Was half of earth and half of heaven. I hear thy voice, I see thy smile, I look upon thy folded hair ; Ah ! while we dream not they beguile,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1850 - 310 pages
...some sweet angel, likest thee ! I L'INCONNUE. Is thy name Mary, maiden fair ? Such should, mcthinks, its music be ; The sweetest name that mortals bear,...once was given, Was half of earth and half of heaven. I hear thy voice, I see thy smile, I look upon thy folded hair ; Ah ! while we dream not they beguile,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - Literature, Modern - 1851 - 320 pages
...some sweet angel, likest thee ! L'INCONNUE. Is thy name Mary, maiden fair ? Such should, mcthinks, its music be ; The sweetest name that mortals bear,...once was given, Was half of earth and half of heaven. I hear thy voice, I see thy smile, I look upon thy folded hair ; Ah ! while we dream not they beguile,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1852 - 588 pages
...more, Then let thy spirit with me be, Or some sweet angel, likest thee ! L'INCONNUE. la thy name MABY, maiden fair 1 Such should, methinks, its music be...once was given, Was half of earth and half of heaven. I hear thy voice, I see thy smile, I look upon thy folded hair ; Ah ! while we dream not they beguile,... | |
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