Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light: But, oh ! she dances such a way— No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight. The World's Best Poetry ... - 388 ページ 編集 - 1904全文表示 - この書籍について
| English poets - 1801 - 454 ページ
...stay on, which they did bring ; It was too wide a peck : And to say truth, for out it must, It look'd like the great collar (just) About our young colt's...petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they fear'd the light : But oh ! she dances such a way — No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight... | |
| English poets - 1801 - 488 ページ
...half so full of juice. Her finger was so small, the ring Would not stay on, which they did bring ; It was too wide a peck : And to say truth, for out it must, It look'd like the great collar (just) About our young colt's neck. Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like... | |
| George Ellis - 1803 - 476 ページ
...stay on which they did bring, It was too wide a peck : And to say truth, for out it must, It look'd like the great collar, just, About our young colt's...petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they fear'd the light : But oh ! she dances such a way — No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight... | |
| 1856 - 634 ページ
...and (barring nudity and immobility) they might have realised the tempting vision of Suckling : — ' Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light.* * The Dream, and other Poems. By the Honourable Mrs. Norton. p. 180. The illustrated edition of ' Italy... | |
| George Ellis - 1803 - 474 ページ
...half so full of juice. Her finger was so small, the ring Would not stay on- which they did bring, It was too wide a peck : And to say truth, for out it must, It look'd like the great collar, just, About our young cok's neck. Her feet beneath her petticoat Like... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 802 ページ
...It was too wide a peck : And to say truth (for out it must) It look'd like the great collar (jnst) About our young colt's neck. Her feet beneath her...petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they fear'd the light: Bnt oh ! she dances such a way ! No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight.... | |
| Robert Herrick - 1810 - 280 ページ
...rather prior to Herrick, being born twenty-two years before him, and dying at an early period of life : Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they fear'd the light : &c. SIR ]. SUCKLING'S Balladon a Wedding, CLXV. UPON HIS GREY HAIRS. ' me not, though... | |
| 1817 - 524 ページ
...Nor half so full of juice. Her finger was so small, the ring Would not stay on which he did bring, It was too wide a peck : And to say truth (for out it must) It look I like the great collar (just) About our young colts neck. Her feet beneath her peticoat, Like... | |
| Sir John Mennes - 1817 - 568 ページ
...Nor half so full of juice. Her finger was so small, the Ring Would not stay on which he did bring, It was too wide a peck : And to say truth (for out it must) It lookt like the great Collar (just) About our young Colts neck. Her feet beneath her peticoat, Like... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - 1819 - 378 ページ
...exquisite description of the Bride, in Sir John Suckling's poem of the Wedding; • . •• . - :.) " Her feet beneath her petticoat, : Like little mice stole in and out, As if they fear'd the light." As for those, who, with bad shapes, make an useless display of their legs, I must... | |
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