 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 Album - Страница 2981823Пуни преглед - О овој књизи
 | English poets - 1801 - 454 страница
...colt's neck. Her feet beneath her 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 ! He would have kiss'd her once or twice, But she would not, she was so nice, She would... | |
 | English poets - 1801 - 488 страница
...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 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 страница
...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 страница
...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 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... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1810 - 280 страница
...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... | |
 | Sir John Mennes - 1817 - 568 страница
...feet beneath her peticoat, Like little mice stole in and out, As if they fear'd the light : But Dick she dances such a way ! No Sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight. He would have kist her once or twice, But she would not, she was so nice She would... | |
 | 1817 - 524 страница
...feet beneath her peticoat, Like little mice stole in and out, As if they fear'd the light : But Dick she dances such a way ! No sun. upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight. He would have kist her once or twice, But she would not, she was so nice She would... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1819 - 378 страница
...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1819 - 368 страница
...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 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.... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1824 - 408 страница
...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 little mice, stole in and out, As if they fear'd the light : But oh ! she dances such a way! No sun upon the Easter-day Is half so fine a sight.... | |
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