 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...  The Book Buyer - Page 291900Full view - About this book
 | Bride - 1835 - 134 pages
...without heat, undying, tented by Pure vestal thoughts in the translucent fane Of her still spirit ; — locks not wide dispread, Madonna-wise on either side...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... | |
 | Fashion - 462 pages
...or brown, or any intermediate shade or hue, only remembering their clearness and purity. Again : " Locks not wide dispread, Madonna-wise, on either side...head ; Sweet lips, whereon perpetually did reign The summer-calm of golden charity." And of figure we only read : " The stately flower of female fortitude."... | |
 | English literature - 1842 - 416 pages
...such rare beauty, that 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 - 1842 - 252 pages
...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, The intuitive decision of a bright And thorough-edged intellect to part Error from crime—a prudence... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1843 - 260 pages
...without heat, undying, tended by Pure vestal thoughts in the translucent fane Of her still spirit ; locks not wide dispread, Madonna-wise on either side...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
...without heat, undying, tended by Pure vestal thoughts in the translucent fane Of her still spirit ; locks not wide dispread, Madonna-wise on either side...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... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...without heat, undying, tended by Pure vestal thoughts in the translucent fane Of her still spirit, — locks not wide dispread, Madonna-wise on either side...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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1846 - 252 pages
...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, The intuitive decision of a bright And thorough-edged intellect to part Error from crime — a prudence... | |
 | 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... | |
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