 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 610 páginas
...Loosens her fragrant boddiee ; by degrees Her rieh attire ereeps rustling to her knees : Half hidden like a mermaid in sea-weed, Pensive awhile she dreams awake, and sees In faney fair St. Agnes in her bed, But dares not look behind or all the eharm is fled. Soon trembling... | |
 | John Keats - 1856 - 70 páginas
...knelt, so pure a thing, so free from mortal taint. XXVI. Anon his heart revives : her vespers done, Of all its wreathed pearls her hair she frees ; Unclasps...her warmed jewels one by one ; Loosens her fragrant bodice ; by degrees Her rich attire creeps rustling to her knees : Half-hidden, like a mermaid in sea-weed,... | |
 | Thomas Bailey Aldrich - 1857 - 252 páginas
...beholds Madeline as she disrobes : " Of all its wreathed pearls her hair she frees ; Unclasps her wanned jewels one by one ; Loosens her fragrant boddice ;...degrees Her rich attire creeps rustling to her knees." '' How few poets know how to handle color !" said Mortimer. " Azure, red, orange, and all poetic hues... | |
 | Henry Hegart Breen - 1857 - 336 páginas
...own, describes Madeline in the act of unrobing : — " Anon her heart revives ; her vespers done, Of all its wreathed pearls her hair she frees ; Unclasps...her warmed jewels, one by one, Loosens her fragrant bodice ; by degrees Her rich attire creeps rustling to her knees, Half-hidden like a mermaid in sea-... | |
 | Henry Hegart Breen - 1857 - 362 páginas
...wreathed pearls her hair she frees; Unclasps her warmed jewels, one by one, Loosens her fragrant bodice ; by degrees Her rich attire creeps rustling to her knees, Half-hidden like a mermaid in sea-weed." The whole of this inimitable sketch has been adopted by Tennyson in his " Legend of Gondiva:"— "... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1858 - 428 páginas
...knelt, so pure a thing, so free from mortal taint. " Anon his heart revives : her vespers done, Of all its wreathed pearls her hair she frees ; Unclasps...her warmed jewels one by one; Loosens her fragrant hoddice; by degrees Her rich attire creeps rustling to her knees : Half-hidden, like a mermaid in sea-weed,... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1858 - 294 páginas
...transcribe the verses in which Keats has painted Madeline lying down in her beauty. —Her vespers done, Of all its wreathed pearls her hair she frees; Unclasps her warmed jewels one hy one; Loosens her fragrant boddice ; by degrees Her rich attire creeps rustling to her knees: Half-hidden,... | |
 | William Hone - 1859 - 882 páginas
...—————— — Her vespers done Of all its wreathed pearls her hair she frees ; Unclasps her warmedjewels one by one ; Loosens her fragrant boddice ; by degrees...awake, and sees, In fancy, fair St. Agnes in her bed, Hut dares not look behind, or all the charm is fled. Soon, trembling in her soft and chilly nest, In... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 páginas
...heart revives : her vespers done, Of all its wreathed pearls her hair she frees ; Unclasps her warmid jewels one by one ;'* Loosens her fragrant boddice...degrees Her rich attire creeps rustling to her knees : Half hidden, like a mermaid in sea-weed, Pensive awhile she dreams awake, and sees In fancy fair... | |
 | Peter Bayne - 1860 - 432 páginas
...She knelt, so pure a thing, so free from mortal taint. Anon his heart revives : her vespers done, Of all its wreathed pearls her hair she frees; Unclasps...degrees Her rich attire creeps rustling to her knees: Half hidden, like a mermaid in sea weed, Pensive a while she dreams awake, and sees, In fancy, fair... | |
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Half-hidden, like a mermaid in seaweed, Pensive awhile she dreams awake, and sees In fancy, fair St. Agnes in her bed, But dares not look behind, or all the charm is fled. 
