 | Walter Jackson Bate - Literary Criticism - 2009 - 784 pages
...moving skin, the colors and patterns on her "rainbow-sided" body also suggest those of other animals: Striped like a zebra, freckled like a pard, Eyed like a peacock, and all crimson barr'd. At the same time a "complete" set of teeth, of the sort often described in pastoral love imagery, flash... | |
 | Edward H. Schafer - Business & Economics - 1963 - 436 pages
...of paradise" to Ch'ang-an as a natural wonder and equally as an emblem of the faith. 120 104 She was a gordian shape of dazzling hue, Vermilion-spotted, golden, green, and blue; Striped li\ea zebra, frec\led like a pard, Eyed lH-e a peacoc\, and all crimson-barr'd; And full of silver... | |
 | John Barnard - Literary Collections - 1987 - 192 pages
...irony, and the 'gentle heart', hearing her 'mournful voice', can feel only 'pity' (I. 35-7). She was a gordian shape of dazzling hue, Vermilion-spotted,...Striped like a zebra, freckled like a pard, Eyed like peacock, and all crimson barred; And full of silver moons, that, as she breathed, Dissolved, or brighter... | |
 | Hermione de Almeida - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 429 pages
...biolysis of a dissolving former organism. She was a gordion shape of dazzling hue, Vermillion-spotted, golden, green, and blue; Striped like a zebra, freckled...pard, Eyed like a peacock, and all crimson barr'd; And full of silver moons, that, as she breathed, Dissolv'd, or brighter shone, or interwreathed Their... | |
 | John Keats - Poetry - 1994 - 554 pages
...Until he found a palpitating snake, Bright, and cirque-couchant1 in a dusky brake. She was a gordian4 shape of dazzling hue, Vermilion-spotted, golden,...pard, Eyed like a peacock, and all crimson barr'd; 50 And full of silver moons, that, as she breathed, Dissolv'd, or brighter shone, or interwreathed... | |
 | Jack Stillinger - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 268 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, 585 Each shrunk up to a serpent's eye, And with somewhat of malice, and more of... | |
 | John Keats, Robert Gittings - Literary Collections - 1995 - 324 pages
...weed, 45 Until he found a palpitating snake, Bright, and cirque-couchant in a dusky brake. She was a gordian shape of dazzling hue, Vermilion-spotted,...blue; Striped like a zebra, freckled like a pard, 50 Eyed like a peacock, and all crimson barr'd; And full of silver moons, that, as she breathed, Dissolv'd,... | |
 | Donald Maddox, Sara Sturm-Maddox - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 320 pages
...silently . . . Until he found 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, Dissolv'd, or brighter shone, or interwreathed Their... | |
 | Keith D. White - Apollo (Greek deity) in literature - 1996 - 224 pages
...Consider Keats's description of Lamia: She was a gordian shape of dazzling hue, Ver million-spotted, golden, green, and blue; Striped like a zebra, freckled like a pard, Eyed like a peacock, and crimson barr'd; And full of silver moons, that, as she breathed, Dissolv'd, or brighter shone, or interwreathed... | |
 | Douglas Robillard - Art - 1997 - 244 pages
..."rich attire: / Blue, glossy green, and velvet black." From Keats's "Lamia," the snakelike demon is "a gordian shape of dazzling hue, / Vermilion-spotted,...and blue; / Striped like a zebra, freckled like a pard."6 The case for Coleridge is, perhaps, not entirely clear, but for Keats there are useful hints.... | |
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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! 
