 | Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1876 - 938 pàgines
...child, a limber elf, Singing, dancing to itself, A fairy thing with rod round cheeks, That alwayt Jindi, and never seeks, Makes such a vision to the sight As fills a father's eyes with light.' The poet then proceeds to unite, in a manner true in nature and in fact, yet equally strange and startling,... | |
 | 1877 - 812 pàgines
...— "A little child, a limber elf, Singing, daneing to itself, A fuiry tiiing, with red round checks, That always finds and never seeks, Makes such a vision...As fills a father's eyes with light : And pleasures flew in BO thick and fast Upon his heart, that he at last Mast needs express his love's excess In words... | |
 | Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pàgines
...her loveliness. A CHILD. A LITTLE child, a limber elf, Singing, dancing to itself, A fairy thing with red round cheeks, That always finds and never seeks,...Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together Thoughts so unlike each other ; To mutter and mock a broken charm, To dally with wrong that does no harm. Perhaps... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1880 - 738 pàgines
...II. A LTTTLB child, a limber elf, Singing, dancing to itself, A fairy thing with red round checks. That always finds, and never seeks, Makes such a vision...a father's eyes with light; And pleasures flow in M> thick and Ikst Upon his heart, that he tit last Must needs express his love's excess With words... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1881 - 592 pàgines
...CONCLUSION TO PART THE SECOND A little child, a limber elf, Singing, dancing to itself, A fairy thing with red round cheeks That always finds, and never seeks,...force together Thoughts so all unlike each other ; To mntter and mock a broken charm, To dally with wrong that does no harm. Perhaps 'tis tender too and... | |
 | Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 pàgines
...joy. From-CHRISTABEL. A little child, a limber elf, Singing, dancing to itself, A fairy thing with red round cheeks, That always finds, and never seeks,...to force together Thoughts so all unlike each other ; . . Perhaps 'tis tender, too, and pretty, At each wild word to feel within A sweet recoil of love... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1889 - 308 pàgines
...CONCLUSION TO PART^II. A LITTLE child, a limber elf, Singing, dancing to itself, A fairy thing with red round cheeks, That always finds, and never seeks,...love's excess With words of unmeant bitterness. Perhaps 't is pretty to force together Thoughts so all unlike each other ; To mutter and mock a broken charm,... | |
 | Henry Bernard Cotterill - 1882 - 410 pàgines
...yet dangerous to mock. " A little child, a limber elf, Singing, dancing to itself, A fairy thing with red round cheeks, That always finds and never seeks,...that he at last Must needs express his love's excess In words of unmeant bitterness. Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together Thoughts so unlike each other... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1882 - 720 pàgines
...CONCLUSION TO PAST n. A LITTLE child, a limber elf. Singing, dancing to itself, A fairy thing with red round cheeks. That always finds, and never seeks....Upon his heart, that he at last Must needs express bis love's excess With words of uumeant bitterness. Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together Thoughts... | |
 | Henry Bernard Cotterill - 1882 - 354 pàgines
...yet dangerous to mock. "A little child, a limber elf, Singing, dancing to itself, A fairy thing with red round cheeks, That always finds and never seeks,...father's eyes with light; And pleasures flow in so thkk and fast Upon his heart, that he at last Must needs express his love's excess In words of unmeant... | |
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A little child, a limber elf, Singing, dancing to itself, A fairy thing with red round cheeks That always finds, and never seeks, Makes such a vision to the sight As fills a father's eyes with light... 
