 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!  Recreations of a Recluse - Page 227by Francis Jacox - 1870Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1845 - 582 pages
...And couch'd her head upon her breast, And look'd askance at Christabel Josu, 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.... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 pages
...Geraldine, — looks which the innocent Christabel, in her fascination, feels compelled to " imitate." A snake's small eye blinks dull and shy. And the lady's eyes they shrank in her head, Each shrank up to a serpent's eye ; And with somewhat of malice and more of dread,... | |
 | John Keats - 1846 - 340 pages
...and cirque-couchant in a dusky brake. She was a gordian 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, Dissolved, or brighter shone, or interwreathed Their... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1847 - 638 pages
...full-flowering weed, Until he found a palpitating snake, Bright, and cirque-couchant in a dusky brake. She was a gordian shape of dazzling hue, Vermilion-spotted,...freckled like a pard, Eyed like a peacock, and all crimson-barr'd ; And full of silver moons, that, as she breathed, Dissolved, or brighter shone, or... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - 1847 - 556 pages
...cirque-couchant in a dusky brake. She was a gordmn shnpc of dazzling hue, Vermilion-spotted, golden, tjreeu, and blue ; Striped like a zebra, freckled like a pard, Eyed like a peacock, and all crimron-harr'd ; And full of silver moons, that, as she breathed, Dissolved, or brighter shone, or... | |
 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1847 - 352 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,... | |
 | 1848 - 530 pages
...agreeable to some, and if it should not in its attractions glitter like the Athenian serpent — • " of dazzling hue, Vermilion-spotted, golden, green,...blue ; Striped like a zebra, freckled like a pard, Kyed like a peacock, and all crimsoil-barr'd," — yet doubt I not that some of its pages will be read... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - 1853 - 548 pages
...cirque-couchant in a dusky brake. She was a gordian shape of dazzling hue. Vermilion-spoiled, golden, preen, and blue ; Striped like a zebra, freckled like a pard, Eyed like a peacock, and nil erimson-liarr'd ; And full of silver moni», that, ns she breathed, Dissolved, or brighter shone,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 712 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 Coleridge - 1853 - 728 pages
...breast, . : • And looked askance at Christabel , ',. ' Jesu Maria, shield her well ! • • * " . l " 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... | |
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