 Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw warm gules on Madeline's fair breast, As down she knelt for heaven's grace and boon ; Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together prest, And on her silver cross soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory,...  What Men Have Said about Woman ... - Page 88edited by - 1865 - 320 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Keats - English poetry - 1856 - 70 pages
...twilight saints, and dim emblazonings, A shielded scutcheon blush'd with blood of queens kings. в 2 and Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw...warm gules on Madeline's fair breast ; As down she fcnelt for heaven's grace and boon Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together prest, And on her silver... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - English essays - 1856 - 794 pages
...threw warm gules on Madeline's fair treat. As down she knelt for Heaven's grace and tooo" Rose bloom fell on her hands, together prest, And on her silver cross, soft arncihyst ; And on her hair, a glory like a saint ! She seern'da splendid angel, newly drest Save wings,... | |
 | Walter Jackson Bate - Literary Criticism - 2009 - 784 pages
...Madeline but, as she kneels to pray, also serves to shake once again Porphyro's single-mindedness: Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together prest, And...silver cross soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory . . . . . . Porphyro grew faint: She knelt, so pure a thing, so free from mortal taint. Now and in... | |
 | Tony Buzan - Self-Help - 1984 - 164 pages
...used for his example a couplet from the "Eve of St. Agnes," a poem by the English poet John Keats: For on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw warm gules on Madeline's fair breast. Taking the emotion and poetry from these lines, Thouless ended up with the fairly bare and singularly... | |
 | R. P. Hewett - English Poetry - 1985 - 322 pages
...twilight saints, and dim emblazonings, A shielded scutcheon blush'd with blood of queens and kings. XXV Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw warm gules on Madeline's fair breast, 20 As down she knelt for heaven's grace and boon; Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together prest, And... | |
 | Wendy Steiner - Art - 1988 - 242 pages
...Catholicism blend in this glass through which the pallid "wintry moon" of enthralling romance shone down And threw warm gules on Madeline's fair breast, As...splendid angel, newly drest, Save wings, for heaven. (1l.218-24) Here Madeline becomes Agnes decked in Christ's favors. She is also the reflection of romance.... | |
 | Arts - 1875 - 398 pages
...in its right place, veiling the too dazzling splendour of the sun, or falling — " Rose bloom upon her hands, together prest, And on her silver cross soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory." But it is somewhat perilous to place one's heroine in such a light. A very little movement of her head... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...came like a full-blown rose, (1. 136) 9 A poor, weak, palsy-stricken, churchyard thing, (1. 155) 10 e, though genius (1. 17-18) 11 As though a rose should shut, and be a bud again. (1. 243) 12 Noiseless as fear in a... | |
 | John Keats - Poetry - 1994 - 554 pages
...blood of queens and kings. xxv Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw warm gules15 on Madeline's fair breast, As down she knelt for heaven's...her silver cross soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory,16 like a saint: She seem'da splendid angel, newly drest, Save wings, for heaven: - Porphyro... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...twilight saints, and dim emblazonings, A shielded scutcheon blush'd with blood of queens and kings. 25 Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw...boon; Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together prest, 220 And on her silver cross soft amethyst. And on her hair a glory, like a saint: She seem'da splendid... | |
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