Oracles from the Poets: A Fanciful Diversion for the Drawing Room

by Unknown

[A] Stared with surprise.

46. An angel-face! its sunny "wealth of hair,"

In radiant ripples, bathes the graceful throat,

And dimpled shoulders; round the rosy curve

Of the sweet mouth, a smile seems wandering ever,

While in the depths of azure fire that gleams

Beneath the drooping lashes, sleeps a world

Of eloquent meaning—passionate, but pure;

Dreamy, subdued, but O, how beautiful!