She has thrown her bonnet by, And her feet she has been dipping In the shallow water's flow : Now she holds them nakedly In her hands, all sleek and dripping, While she rocketh to and fro. Little Ellie sits alone, And the smile she softly useth Fills... The Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Страница 253по Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1844Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
| Anna Randall Diehl - 1876 - 458 страници
...; While she thinks what shall be done, And the sweetest pleasure chooses, For her future within her reach. Little Ellie in her smile Chooseth — "I will...love me without guile; And to him I will discover " And the steed shall be red-roan, And the lover shall be noble, With an eye that takes the breath;... | |
| James Madison Watson - 1876 - 348 страници
...sweetest pleasure chooses, For her future within reach. 4. Little Ellie in her smile Choose th — " I will have a lover, Riding on a steed of steeds !...I will discover That swan's nest among the reeds. 6. " And the steed shall be red-roan, And the lover shall be noble, With an eye that takes the breath... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1876 - 599 страници
...and dripping, While she rocketh to and fro. Little Ellie sits alone, And the smile she softly uses Fills the silence like a speech, While she thinks what shall be done, — And the sweetest pleasure chooses For her future within reach. Little Ellie in her smile Chooses . ..." I will have a lover,... | |
| James Madison Watson - 1876 - 348 страници
...dripping, While she rocketh to and fro. S. Little Ellie sits alone ; And the smile she s6ftly uses, Fills the silence like a speech ; While she thinks what shall be done, — And the sweetest pleasure chooses, For her future within reach. 4- Little Ellie in her smile Chooseth — " I will have a lover,... | |
| Georgiana Marion Craik - 1877 - 330 страници
...poem was the Swan's Nest, and only too well did she remember now the description of the knight— " I will have a lover Riding on a steed of steeds, He shall love me without guile." Tears brought her the relief that only expression of a sorrow can give, and then she began to think... | |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1877 - 366 страници
...dripping, While she rocketh to and fro. m. Little Ellie sits alone, And the smile she softly uses, Fills the silence like a speech, While she thinks what shall be done,And the sweetest pleasure chooses For her future within reach. IV. Little Ellie in her smile Chooses... | |
| Georgiana Marion Craik - 1878 - 304 страници
...The poem was the Swan's Nest, and only too well did she remember now the description of the knight— "I will have a lover Riding on a steed of steeds, He shall love me without guile." Tears brought her the relief that only expression of a sorrow can give, and then she began to think... | |
| Anna Randall Diehl - 1878 - 460 страници
...and dripping, While she rocketh to and fro. Little Ellie sits alone; And the smile she softly uses, Fills the silence like a speech ; While she thinks what shall be done,And the sweetest pleasure chooses, For her future within her reach. Little Ellie in her smile... | |
| Choice poems - 1879 - 206 страници
...cuckoo-pint — the wild arum, ' lords and ladies.' Little Ellie sits alone, And the smile she softly uses Fills the silence like a speech, While she thinks what shall be done, — And the sweetest pleasure chooses For her future, within reach. Little Ellie in ,her smile Chooses . . . . ' I will have a lover,... | |
| Helen A Hertz - 1879 - 292 страници
...and dripping, While she rocketh to and fro. Little Ellie sits alone, And the smile she softly uses Fills the silence like a speech, While she thinks what shall be done, And the sweetest pleasure chooses For her future within reach. Little Ellie, in her smile, Chooses — " I will have a lover,... | |
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