...generous, shy, witty, and ever so young, appears at the Pension to make much of her, seeing her is half angel and half bird, and 'all a wonder and a wild desire.' They adore one another, and she becomes radiant with light and delight from within. And then, alas!...

...disfigured by obscurities that seem almost intentional : — ' 0 lyric Love, half-angel and half-bird, And all a wonder and a wild desire, — Boldest of...to his face, — Yet human at the red-ripe of the heartWhen the first summons from the darkling earth Keached thee amyl thy chambers, blanched their...

...rounds my ring. A ring without a posy, and that ring mine ? 1390 O lyric Love, half-angel and half-bird And all a wonder and a wild desire, — Boldest of...holier blue, And sang a kindred soul out to his face, — 1395 Yet human at the red-ripe of the heart — When the first summons from the darkling earth...

...rounds my ring. A ring without a posy, and that ring mine ? 1390 O lyric Love, half-angel and half-bird And all a wonder and a wild desire, — Boldest of...holier blue, And sang a kindred soul out to his face, — 1395 Yet human at the red-ripe of the heart — When the first summons from the darkling earth...

...find more extended criticism, at some future time, in these columns : — u 0 lyric love, half augel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire,...within the holier blue, And sang a kindred soul out tt' his face — Yet human as the red-ripe of the heart — When the first summons from the darkling...

...this, which closes the introductory section of The Ring and iht Book, is one of the most noticeable : O lyric Love, half angel and half bird, — And all...ever braved the sun, Took sanctuary within the holier bine, And sang a kindred noul out to his face, — Yet human at the red-ripe of the heart — When...

...invocation which concludes the first section of the poem : — " 0 Lyric Love, half-angel and half-bird, And all a wonder and a wild desire, — Boldest of...the sun, Took sanctuary within the holier blue, And sing a kindred soul out to his face, — Yet human at the red-ripe of the heart — When the first...

...The dust swept from their beauty, — glorified New Memnons singing in the great God-light. I LYEIC Love, half angel and half bird, And all a wonder and...his face, — Yet human at the red-ripe of the heart — # # * * * Never may I commence my song, my due To God, who best taught song by gift of Thee, Except...

...breaks into the cadences of Tennyson's style; for instance, the apostrophe to his dead wife, beginning " O lyric Love, half angel and half bird, And all a wonder and a wild desire ! " But elsewhere he still leads the reaction from the art-school. His presentations are endless :...

...introduction to his great poem the " Ring and the Book." A ring without a posy, and that ring mine ! Oh, Lyric Love, half angel and half bird, And all a wonder...face, Yet human at the red-ripe of the heart. When the 6rst summons from the darkling earth Reached thee amid thy chambers, blanched their blue, And bared...