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I stood as still as a startled quail, For wonder of its fair figure, I felt no rest and no travail, Ravished before such radiance pure.

From The Pearl by Jewett, Sophie

Methinks I fly, yet want I legs to go, Wise in conceit, in act a very sot, Ravished with joy amidst a hell of woe, What most I seem that surest am I not.

From Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Idea, Fidesa and Chloris by Crow, Martha Foote

O would that I, before that spirit-power, Ravished and rapt from life, had sunken!

From Faust by Taylor, Bayard

But Autumn ever Pursues them till, As ever before, She has her will, And leaves them desolate, dead and still, Ravished afar and wide; Leaves them desolate; crying shrill, "No beauty shall abide!"

From Many Gods by Rice, Cale Young

Ravished with joy, he rises immediately, and entering with profound respect into the chapel, he falls prostrate on the ground, to adore the majesty of God.

From Purgatory by Sadlier, Mrs. James