 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1844
...And a forehead fair and saintly, Which two blue eyes undershine, Like meek prayers before a shrine. Face and figure of a child, — Though too calm, you...and tender, For the childhood you would lend her. Yet child-simple, undefiled, Frank, obedient, — waiting still On the turnings of your will. Moving... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1850
...And a forehead fair and saintly, Which two blue eyes undershine, Like meek prayers before a shrine. Face and figure of a child, — Though too calm, you...and tender, For the childhood you would lend her. Yet child-simple, undefiled, Frank, obedient, — waiting still On the turnings of your will. Moving... | |
 | 1850 - 124 pages
...And a forehead fair and saintly, Which two blue eyes undershine, Like meek prayers before a shrine. Face and figure of a child, — Though too calm, you...and tender, For the childhood you would lend her. Yet child-simple, undefiled, Frank, obedient,— waiting still On the turnings of your will. A PORTRAIT.... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1853
...And a forehead fair and saintly, Which two blue eyes undershine, Like meek prayers before a shrine. Face and figure of a child, — Though too calm, you...and tender, For the childhood you would lend her. Yet child-simple, undefiled, Frank, obedient, — waiting still On the turnings of your will. Moving... | |
 | Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith - 1854 - 336 pages
...remembered only the great, nobler aspects to which all respond in periods of emergency. CHAPTER IV. Face and figure of a child — Though too calm, you...and tender, For the childhood you would lend her. And a stranger — when he sees her — In the street even — smileth stilly, Just as you would at... | |
 | Mrs. Robert Cartwright - 1854
...beauty. Oval cheeks encoloured faintly, \V~hich a trail of golden hair Keeps from falling off to air. Face and figure of a child,— Though too calm, you...and tender, For the childhood you would lend her. Quiet talk she liketh best, In a bower of gentle looks, Watering flowers or reading books. ELIZABETH... | |
 | Maria Jane McIntosh - 1856 - 448 pages
...peace, yet suffering neither change, nor let, nor hindrance, in its own eternal purposes. CHAPTER III. " Face and figure of a child, Though too calm, you think, and tender, For the childhood you would lend her j And her smile, it seems half holy, As if drawn from thoughts more for Thau our common jestings are.... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1862
...forehead fair and saintly, Which two blue eyes undershine, Like meek prayers before a shrine. Pace and figure of a child, — Though too calm, you think,...and tender, For the childhood you would lend her. Tet child-simple, undefiled, Frank, obedient, waiting still On the turnings of your will. Moving light,... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1862
...And a forehead fair and saintly, Which two blue eyes undershine, Like meek prayers before a shrine. Face and figure of a child, — Though too calm, you...and tender, For the childhood you would lend her. Yet child-simple, undefiled, Frank, obedient,— waiting still On the turnings of your will. Moving... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1864
...And a forehead fair and saintly, Which two blue eyes undershiue, Like meek prayers before a shrine. Face and figure of a child, — Though too calm, you think, and tender, Por the childhood you would lend her. Tet child-simple, undefiled, Frank, obedient, waiting still On... | |
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