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" Had half impair'd the nameless grace Which waves in every raven tress, Or softly lightens o'er her face ; Where thoughts serenely sweet express How pure, how dear their dwelling-place. And on that cheek, and o'er that brow, So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,... "
The Modern Student's Book of English Literature - Page 389
by Harry Morgan Ayres, Frederick Morgan Padelford - 1924 - 898 pages
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The Beauties of Byron,: Consisting of Selections from His Works

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Alfred Howard - 1824 - 226 pages
...tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. One shade the more, one ray the less, And half-impair'd the nameless grace Which waves in every raven tress,...peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent t II. If that high world, which lies beyond Our own, surviving I/ove endears ; If there the cherish'd...
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Specimens of sacred and serious poetry, from Chaucer to the present day ...

John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...impair'd the nameless grace Which waves in every raven tress, Or softly lightens o'er her face; When thoughts serenely sweet express How pure, how dear,...peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent HERBERT KNOWLES. BORN 179S—DIED 1S17. THERE is a vigour and ripenes s in the subjoined stanzas, which...
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. One shade the more, one ray the less, Had half impaired the nameless grace, Which waves in every raven tress....peace with all below, A heart, whose love is innocent ! INSCRIPTION ON THE MONUMENT OF THE AUTHOR'S DOO BOATSWAIN. WHEN some proud son of man returns to...
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The Complete Works of Lord Byron: Including His Suppressed Poems ..., Volume 1

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1832 - 488 pages
...that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. One shade the more, one ray the less, Had half impair' d the nameless grace Which waves in every...in goodness spent, A mind at peace with all below, S A heart whose love is innocent ! THE HARP THE MONARCH MINSTREL SWEPT. THE harp the monarch minstrel...
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The Heiress: A Novel, Volume 1

Ellen Pickering - 1834 - 256 pages
...shade the more, one ray the less, ' Had half impair'd the nameless grace v~ Which waves in every auburn tress, Or softly lightens o'er her face'; Where thoughts...goodness spent — , A mind at peace with all below, i A heart where all is innocent ! BYROK. IT was towards the end of May ; not sufficiently warm to occasion...
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The songs of England and Scotland

England - 1835 - 794 pages
...and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes : One shade the more, one ray the ess, Had half impair'd the nameless grace Which waves in every raven tress,...peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent ! [From the Hebrew Melodies. '' These stanzas," says the Editor of Byron's Works, voL 10, p. 75, "...
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The Songs of England and Scotland, Volume 1

Ballads, English - 1835 - 378 pages
...half impair'd the nameless grace Which waves in every raven tress, Or softly lightens o'er her face j Where thoughts serenely sweet express How pure, how...peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent ! [From the Hebrew Melodies. " These stanzas," says the Editor of Byron's Wnrks, vol. 10, p. 75, "...
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Selections from the British Poets, Volume 2

English poetry - 1840 - 378 pages
...tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. One shade the more, one ray the less, Had half impair'd the nameless grace Which waves in every raven tress,...peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent ! FROM " MANFRED." Man. The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountain....
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The Poets and Poetry of England, in the Nineteenth Century

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...day denies. One shade the more, one ray the less, Had hull-impair' d the nameless grace Which wuves in every raven tress, Or softly lightens o'er her...peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent ! TO MARY. WELL ! thou art happy, and I feel That I should thus be happy too ; For still my heart regards...
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The Poets and Poetry of England: In the Nineteenth Century

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. One shade the more, one ray the less, Had half-impair'd the nameless grace Which waves in every raven tress,...peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent ! TO MARY. WELL ! thou art happy, and I feel That I should thus be happy too ; For still my heart regards...
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