 | 1869
...Now, it may be conceded that it is no easy matter, when — Vol. 68.— No. 374. Q A little child, a limber elf, Singing, dancing to itself; A fairy...red round cheeks, That always finds, and never seeks : Making such vision to the sight As fills a father's eyes with light, — presents itself before one,... | |
 | John Bickerton - Farrago - 1816 - 70 pages
...Geraldine."— 14 sense or poetry, they wilt be more fortunate than we have been.— " A little child, a limber elf, Singing, dancing to itself, A fairy...Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together Thoughts so all unlike each other ; To mutter and mock a broken charm, To dally with wrong that does no harm. Perhaps... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1816 - 82 pages
...knight, Sir Leoline, Led forth the lady Geraldine! THE CONCLUSION TO PART THE SECOND. A little child, a limber elf, Singing, dancing to itself, A fairy...Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together Thoughts so all unlike each other; / To mutter and mock a broken charm, * To dally with wrong that does no harm.... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1816 - 242 pages
...knight, Sir Leoline, Led forth the lady Geraldine ! THE CONCLUSION TO PART THE SECOND. A little child, a limber elf, Singing, dancing to itself, A fairy...his love's excess With words of unmeant bitterness. 48 CHRISTABEL. Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together Thoughts so all unlike each other ; To mutter... | |
 | 1816 - 612 pages
...dancing, to iiscll', A fairy thing with red round cheeli That always find?, and never seeks, Ala! es such a vision to the sight As fills a father's eyes with light; And pleasures How in so thick and fast Upon his heart, that he at last II list needs express his love's excess 'With... | |
 | England - 1877 - 798 pages
...suggested is the true one. But there can be no question about the beauty of the lines — " A little child, a limber elf, Singing, dancing to itself, A fairy...red round cheeks, That always finds and never seeks, M ,. 1. ' - such a vision to the sight As fills a father's eyes with light ;1 And pleasures flew in... | |
 | England - 1836 - 878 pages
...dancing to itself; A little thing with red round cheeks, That always fiods and never seek* ; Forma such a vision to the sight As fills a father's eyes with light, Till he must vent his heart's excess In words of unmeant hitterness," I shall only summon the reader's... | |
 | English literature - 1823 - 816 pages
...limber elph, Singing, dancing, to itself; A faery thing, with red round cheeks, That always finds, but never seeks. Makes such a vision to the sight, As fills a father's eyes with light ; And pleasures Sow in so thick, so fast, Upon his heart, that he at last Must needs express his love's excess. With... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 pages
...knight, Sir Leoline, Led forth the lady Géraldine ! THE CONCLUSION TO PART 11. • A LITTLS child, a limber elf, Singing, dancing to itself, A fairy...and never seeks, Makes such a vision to the sight As nils a father's eyes with light; And pleasures flow in so thick and fast Upon his heart, that he at... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pages
...THE CONCLUSION TO PART II. A LITTLE child, a limber elf, Singing, dancing to itself, A fairy tiling Rain-awaken'd flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and...and fresh, thy music doth mrpass. SHELLEY'S POETICAL hut Must needs express his love's excess With words of unmeant bitterness. Perhaps 't is pretty to... | |
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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... 
