 She was a gordian shape of dazzling hue, Vermilion-spotted, golden, green, and blue ; Striped like a zebra, 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,...  New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register - Page 451864Full view - About this book
 | 1904 - 636 pages
...was glorious in her fatal fascination : She was a gordian shape of dazzling hue, Vermilion spotted, golden, green, and blue ; Striped like a zebra, freckled...a pard, Eyed like a peacock and all crimson barr'd ; And full of silver moons, that, as she breath'd, Dissolved, or brighter shone, or interwreathed Their... | |
 | 1904 - 622 pages
...the Lamia be forgotten : A palpitating snake Bright and cirque-couchant in a dusky brake ; She was a Gordian shape of dazzling hue, Vermilion-spotted,...green, and blue ; Striped like a zebra, freckled like a perch, l£yed like a peacock, and all crimson-barred ; And full of silver moons, that, as she breathed,... | |
 | John Keats - 1906 - 428 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... | |
 | Arthur Compton-Rickett - 1906 - 260 pages
...poet's imagination is felt throughout. Compare the elaborate description of " Lamia " : — " She was a gordian shape of dazzling hue, Vermilion-spotted,...; Striped like a zebra, freckled like a pard, Eyed liked a peacock, and all crimson barr'd ; And full of silver moons, that, as she breathed, Dissolv'd,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1887 - 926 pages
...comparison for a moment with such a study, for example, as that of Lamia, the witch-serpent : She was a gordian shape of dazzling hue, Vermilion-spotted,...freckled like a pard, Eyed like a peacock, and all crimson-barred." This is the style of "fine excess," the art of " loading e very rift with ore." No... | |
 | Alexander Malcolm Williams - 1909 - 454 pages
...sweet regent of the sky, Silver'd the walls of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby. 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 interwreathed... | |
 | Edmund Lester Pearson - 1911 - 320 pages
...extraordinary and beautiful serpent, at which I looked with the greatest surprise and wonder. " She was a gordian shape of dazzling hue, Vermilion-spotted,...like a pard, Eyed like a peacock, and all crimson barred; And full of silver moons, that, as she breathed, Dissolved, or brighter shone, or inter-wreathed... | |
 | John Keats - 1914 - 538 pages
...full-flowering weed, Until he found a palpitating snake, Bright and cirque-couchaut, 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... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - 1915 - 956 pages
...full-flowering weed, Until he found a palpitating snake, Bright, and cirque-couchant in a dusky brake. She was orrow. 30 IV Away! away! for I will fly to thee, Not...of Poesy, Though the dull braiu perplexes and reta And full of silver moons, that, as she breathed, ¡t Dissolved, or brighter shone, or interw rea thed... | |
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1916 - 254 pages
...delight in detailed beauty and colour is made visible in his description of Lamia the snake. " 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... | |
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