Oracles from the poets: a fanciful diversion for the drawing room (1845)
Gilman, Caroline Howard, 1794-1888, ed · New York & London, Wiley and Putnam · leaf 138
e,Deep felt, in these appear ! A simple trainYet so delightful, mixd with such kind art,Such beauty and beneficence combined,Shade unperceived so softening into shade,And all so forming an harmonious whole,That as they still succeed, they ravish still. Thomson The winged Hours!Commissiond in… … HEN, from ebon streak, The moon puts forth a little diamond peak,No bigger than an unobserved star,Or tiny point of fairy cimeter ;Bright signal, that she only stoops to tieHer silver sandals, ere deliciouslyShe bows into the heavens her timid head. Keats. When morning cometh, with a still And…
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