From Wordsworth 's Poems of the Imagination, which reads:
A Creature not too bright or good
For human nature's daily food;
For transient sorrows, simple wiles,
Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
( Wordsworth, Poetical Works, II, p. 213, ll. 17-20)
In this passage Ruskin applies Wordsworth's ideal of a feminine 'soft and domestic form of virtue' as expressed in the poem cited above, She was a Phantom of Delight, to the sky ( Works, 23.125). Wordsworth's feminine ideal was one to which Ruskin also subscribed, as apparent in his subsequently characterizing this poem as a 'perfect description of womanly beauty' ( Works, 18.125).