She took a great pride in her own self-poise; her self-control, which was neither coldness nor density.

POEMS BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH TO A BUTTERFLY I've watched you now a full half hour Self-poised upon that yellow flower; And, little Butterfly!

I've watched you now a full half hour Self-poised upon that yellow flower; And, little Butterfly!

Here you see the fire and passion of the Southern races, and the self-poise, serenity and sturdiness of Northern nations.

So I sat down not a little embarrassed by my exhibitionwhen I had intended to be self-poised.

We all know that he was great, noble, and self-poised.

"And with joy the stars perform their shining, And the sea its long, moon-silver'd roll; For self-poised they live, nor pine with noting All the fever of some differing soul.

I've watched you now a full half hour Self-poised upon that yellow flower; And, little butterfly, indeed I know not if you sleep or feed.

* * SELF-POISED, balanced.

He seems to float self-poised in the centre of the boundless nothing, upon an ell-broad slab of stone and yet not even on that: for the very ground on which he stands he does not feel.

How paltry and helpless, in such dark times, are all theories of mere self-education; all proud attempts, like that of Göthe's Wilhelm Meister, to hang self-poised in the centre of the abyss, and there organise for oneself a character by means of circumstances!

He was the honest mouthpiece of a most peculiar people, local in its opinions and sentiments beyond anything known at the North, even in self-poised Boston.

It is a persuaded, self-poised community, strikingly like its negative pole on the Slavery Question, Massachusetts.

But," and his eye brightened to the hue of cold steel in a way the writer will never forget, as he uttered, in a tone perfectly self-poised, undaunted, and slightly defiant, the words, "that is a point which may be settled by force rather than by reason.

Self-poise is an acrobatic feat, when a person, not loaded at the heels, undertakes trout-fishing from a birch.

I was not an impartial judge; and I remembered, through all, that April night, and the calm, resolute, self-poised character that invested the lovely, girlish face with such dignity, strength, and simplicity.

But the leader of the stockmen quickly recovered his self-poise and accepted the matter as one of the peculiar incidents liable to take place at any time.

The others may be styled Old Church, Good Sense, and Self-Poise.

You, Self-Poise, fill a priestly office.

He foresaw the invasion of which this self-poised, vital youth of three or four and twenty was a sapper; and he knew it was a just punishment from on high for the innocent blood they had shed.

She lacked, indeed, that poetic fancy which belonged to the author of "Phantasmion;" nor did she possess her mental self-poise and firmness of will; but in other respects, even in physical organization and certain features of countenance, they were singularly alike.

He had been given an important preliminary advantage, if he chose to aspire to the love of the sweet one at his side; but he thought hard, and did not lose his self-poise or sense of honor.

I've watch'd you now a full half-hour, Self-poised upon that yellow flower;

My father's hauteur was no safeguard against the steady and self-poised approacheshis shyness found relief in the calm self-reliance of his "left-hand" neighbor; and, as they were both lovers of books, rather than students thereof, a congeniality of tastes on literary subjects drew them together in those hours of leisure which Mr. Bainrothe usually passed in his own or my father's library, in the cultivation of the dolce far nienteI

Ada Greene was standing self-poised, swaying like a slender reed with the motion of the raft, so as never to lose her balance, like a young acrobat, with her folded arms, her floating hair, and fair Aurora face, uplifted to the day.