 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 562 pages
...crouched her head upon her breast, And looked askance at Christabel Jesu, Maria, shield her well ! A snake's small eye blinks dull and shy, And the lady's eyes they shrunk in her head, Each shrunk up to a serpent's eye, And with somewhat of malice, and more of dread,... | |
 | William Sloane Kennedy - Physicians - 1883 - 374 pages
...lovely Lady Geraldine exercises over the fair Christabel a fascination like that of a serpent: — " A snake's small eye blinks dull and shy, And the lady's eyes they shrunk in her head, Each shrunk up to a serpent's eye, And with somewhat of malice, and more of dread,... | |
 | John Keats - 1884 - 420 pages
...palpitating snake, Bright and cirque-couchant, in a dusky brake. She was a gordian shape of Hailing hue, Vermilion-spotted, golden, green, and blue ;...pard, Eyed like a peacock, and all crimson barr'd ; so And full of silver moons, that, as she breathed, Dissolved, or brighter shone, or interwreathed... | |
 | Charles Wilkins - Wales - 1884 - 604 pages
...who seems to have differed materially from this one as regards her natural conformation : — She was a gordian shape of dazzling hue, Vermilion-spotted, golden, green, and blue ; Striped like a zebra, fieckled like a pard, Eyed like a peacock and all crimson barr'd. Her head was serpent, but ah, bitter... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Joseph Skipsey - 1884 - 304 pages
...And couched her head upon her breast, And looked askance at Christabel Jesu Maria, shield her well ! A snake's small eye blinks dull and shy, And the lady's eyes they shrunk in her head, Each shrunk up to a serpent's eye, And with somewhat of malice, and more of dread,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1884 - 310 pages
...And couched her head upon her breast, And looked askance at Christabel Jesu Maria, shield her well ! A snake's small eye blinks dull and shy, And the lady's eyes they shrunk in her head, Each shrunk up to a serpent's eye, And with somewhat of malice, and more of dread,... | |
 | lady Gertrude Elizabeth Blood Campbell - Fishing - 1886 - 154 pages
...flower." Mr. Buckland might have quoted the description of the serpent in Keats' " Lamia:" — " She was a gordian shape of dazzling hue, Vermilion-spotted,...pard, Eyed like a peacock, and all crimson barr'd ; And full of silver moons," — But this extraordinary brilliancy of colouring, bestowed on such a... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1886 - 624 pages
...among the bushes finds A palpitating snake, Bright and cirque-couchant, in a dusky brake ; She was a gordian shape of dazzling hue, Vermilion-spotted,...pard, Eyed like a peacock, and all crimson barr'd ; And full of silver moons, that, as she breathed, Dissolved, or brighter shone, or interwreathed Their... | |
 | Jakob Schipper - English language - 1888 - 498 pages
...make her gentle vows ; Her slender palms together prest, Heaving sometimes on her breast; etc. S. 114. A snake's small eye blinks dull and shy. And the lady's eyes they shrunk in her head, Each shrunk up to a serpent's eye. And with somewhat of malice, and more of dread... | |
 | Children's poetry, English - 1889 - 552 pages
...couched her head upon her breast, And looked askance at Christabel — Jesu Maria, shield her well ! A snake's small eye blinks dull and shy, And the lady's eyes they shrunk in her head — Each shrunk up to a serpent's eye, And with somewhat of malice, and more of... | |
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A snake's small eye blinks dull and shy, And the lady's eyes they shrunk in her head, Each shrunk up to a serpent's eye, And with somewhat of malice, and more of dread, At Christabel she looked askance! 
