 | Edmund Shaftesbury - Sex - 1924 - 456 pages
...smile, And move, and breathe delicious sighs. Ah! now soft blushes tinge her cheeks And mantle o 'er her neck of snow; Ah! now she murmurs, now she speaks, What most I wish, and fear, to know." The picture to be brought before the mind is that of a very beautiful girl asleep. Her eyes are shut... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 408 pages
...so close thy laughing eyes, Thy rosy lips still wear a smile, And move, and breathe delicious sighs. Ah! now soft blushes tinge her cheeks And mantle o'er her neck of snow ; All ! now she murmurs, now she speaks, What most I wish, and fear, to know. She starts, she trembles,... | |
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SLEEP on, and dream of Heaven awhile — Tho' shut so close thy laughing eyes, Thy rosy lips still wear a smile And move, and breathe delicious sighs ! Ah, now soft blushes tinge her cheeks And mantle o'er her neck of snow ; Ah, now she murmurs, now she... 
