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Poetical Sketches

With other poems. By Alaric A. Watts. Fourth Edition. Illustrated with engravings from designs by T. Stothard, R. A. and W. Nesfield

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She was beautiful as the lily-bosomed Houri
She was beautiful as the lily-bosomed Houri that gladden the visions of the Poet, when, soothed to

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dreams of pleasantness and peace, the downy pinions of Sleep wave over his turbulent soul!