I am the jester on an empty stage Playing a pantomime To spectres in the stalls, Listening at last For ghostly mirth and phantom hands applauding, And for some king with decadent tired fingers To fling a white gardenia at my feet.
And all our dreams and kisses shall be as the rose-leaves falling on ancient festivals, as the shadows of rose-leaves falling on phantom lovers in the sleep-pillared temples of our first archaic passion.
Then once again the glow returns; Again the phantom city burns; And down the red-hot valley, lo!
The dazzling phantom was no longer visible, she was only revealed by the invisible, and the sense of her presence lingered, setting the whole being voluptuously a-quiver.
It seemed improbable that no phantom figure haunted this abode.
The phantom of her whom she had despised, exposed, spurned from her!
The rock on the south side of the lake, called the Phantom Ship, is believed by the Indians to be a destructive monster, innocent as it looks in the daytime.
He spake, and some young Zephyr stirred The two ships touched: no sound was heard; The Black Ship crumbled into air; Only thePhantom Ship was there.
The Lady of the laurelled brow, The Queen of pride and power, Looks rather like a phantom now, And rather like a flower.
The phantom was back, definite of form and smiling in irony.
There was no phantom except the breath of life in his nostrils which they had given him.
He seemed pallid and old, struggling against a phantom himself; almost pitiful, this man of strength, while his eyes looked into Jack's with limpid candor.
There's a far bell ringing, And a phantom voice is singing Of renown for ever clinging To the great days done.
There's a far bell ringing, At the setting of the sun, And a phantom voice is singing Of the great days done.
At last, waving his hand, as if to dispel the phantom his imagination had conjured up, he sprang into the bed, and buried his head under its pillows.
It requires something more than a phantom life-boat to rescue the Gipsy and bring him to land.
Nor will there be a monument for us That might retain the phantom of our passing!
Illness and night frighten them with fearful images; and, at last, they pass away with a song of hope and regret: We shall die, Nor will there be a monument for us That might retain the phantom of our passing!
I seemed to see my companion relapsing into somephantom realm, beyond power of withdrawal.
They can describe to you the Malbone Gardens, and, as the night wanes and the embers fade, can give the tale of the Phantom of Rough Point.
On the few occasions when she had caught a glimpse of Severance, he had seemed to her, no doubt, as much a phantom as she seemed to him.
For a moment I fancied that it came from the empty brig,--a ghostly call, to summon phantom sailors.
His bread and bacon had given out, and the phantom of an Austrian sbirro rode him like a nightmare.
The men had ridden forward after me, and having also passed the angle of refraction saw no more of the phantom host.
I reckon,” Alex observed, “that we’ve got a phantom boarder!
In that strong, cheerful light, the phantom faces had shrunk back to great red bunches of flowers again.
Elephas Levi says that a phantom will attract the vapor of blood and human corpuscles in the air as a magnet attracts iron filings.
He has learnt his art, but rather than apply his learning he gives us once a year the irritating phantom of a good book.
The rigging and funnels of the fleet were unrelated; those ships were phantom and monstrous.
I fear we are pursued 3210 By wicked ghosts; a Phantom of the Dead, The night before we sailed, came to my bed In dream, like that!
But she had brooded over her fear until it had become a phantom which haunted her unceasingly, and she had come to deem me a kind of monster, who stood between her boy and his inheritance.
So I came to be a phantom in the flesh, and do not wonder that she hated me, so sour will the human heart become which broods forever on its selfishness.
Wilt thou too pass, and leave my chill days bare, And fall'n my phantom Summer?
Sleeping she saw his face, but could not find Its phantom's phantom when she waked, nor wind About her finger one gold hair of his.
