 His arms might do what this has done. It was my Heaven's extremest sphere, The pale which held that lovely deer: My joy, my grief, my hope, my love, Did all within this circle move. A narrow compass ! and yet there Dwelt all that's good, and all that's...  The Athenaeum - Page 251832Full view - About this book
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...within this circle move. A narrow compass ! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair. o, have her Saxon foes : How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills S ! EDMl'Nu WALLER. DRINK TO ME ONLY WITH THINE EYES. FROM "THE FOREST." DIIINK to me only with thine... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1881 - 1138 pages
...within this circle move. A narrow compass ! and yet there Dwelt all that's good, and all that's fair. t till you come to Forty Year ! Forty time» ! EDMUND WALLER. THERE is A GARDEN IN HER FACE. THERE is a garden in her face, Where roses and white... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1881 - 738 pages
...pocket. Churehill. GIRDLE. A narrow compass ! and yet there Dwelt all that's good, and all that's fair ! Give me but what this ribbon bound. Take all the rest the sun goes round. Waller, On a Girdle. GLOOM. Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.... | |
 | Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 pages
...within this circle move ! A narrow compass ! and yet there Dwelt all that's good, and all that's fair ; Give me but what this ribbon bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round. AUTHOR UNKNOWN. On the Trial of the Seven Bishops for Treason, whose Acquittal was one of the beginnings... | |
 | William S. Walsh - Authorship - 1882 - 278 pages
...Lovelace, Gray, Andrew Marvell, and Others, are remembered chiefly by a few happy lines apiece. ." Give me but what this ribbon bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round." It is this exquisite couplet which may be said to have kept Waller alive. It is an awkward thing to... | |
 | William S. Walsh - Authorship - 1882 - 280 pages
...Richard Lovelace, Gray, Andrew Marvell, and others, are remembered chiefly by a few happy lines apiece. " Give me but what this ribbon bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round." [t is this exquisite couplet which may be said to have kept Waller alive. It is an awkward thing to... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1883 - 782 pages
...i. Line 123 GIRDLE. * A narrow compass ! and yet there Dwelt all that's good, and all that's fair! Give me but what this ribbon bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round. 1925 Waller : On a Girdle. GLOOM. Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit... | |
 | Love-knots - 1883 - 234 pages
...within this circle move ! A narrow compass ! and yet there Dwelt all that's good and all that's fair ; Give me but what this ribbon bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round. EDMUND WALLER. I'D like to be the lavender That makes her linen sweet, And swoon and sweeten in her... | |
 | Oliver Bell Bunce - Women in literature - 1883 - 332 pages
...within this circle move ! A narrow compass ! and yet there Dwelt all that's good, and all that's fair. Give me but what this ribbon bound, . Take all the rest the sun goes round. SECOND EVENING. TO AMORET. BY EDMUND WALLER. FAIR ! that you may truly know, What you unto Thyrsis... | |
 | Frederick Langbridge - 1883 - 438 pages
...circle move ! A narrow compass ! and yet there Dwelt all that's good and all that's fair; Give me hut what this ribbon bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round. EDMUND WALLER. I'D like to be the lavender That makes her linen sweet, And swoon and sweeten in her... | |
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