 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!  The Eclectic Review - Page 564edited by - 1816Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1878 - 826 pages
...arms across her chest. And couched her head upon her breast, And looked askance at Christabel Jesu Maria, shield her well ! A snake's small eye blinks...somewhat of malice, and more of dread, At Christabel she looked askance ! — One moment — and the sight was fled! But Christabel in dizzy trance Stumbling... | |
 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1880 - 512 pages
...arms across her chest, And couched her head upon her breast, And looked askance at Christabel Tesu Maria, shield her well ! A snake's small eye blinks...And the lady's eyes they shrunk in her head, Each shnmk up to a serpent's eye, And with somewhat of malice, and more of dread, At Christabel she looked... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1880 - 738 pages
...coueh'd her head upon her breast, And look'd askance at Christalwl,— Jesu, Maria, shield her well 1 A snake's small eye blinks dull and shy. And the lady's eyes they shrunk in Uer head, Each shrunk up to a serpent's eye, And with somewhat of malice, and more of dread, At Christabcl... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 pages
...arms across her chest, And couched her head upon her breast, And looked askance at Christabel — Jesu 4 I—- One moment — and the sight was fled ! But Christabel, in dizzy trance Stumbling on the unsteady... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1889 - 308 pages
...looked askance at Christabel — Jesu Maria, shield her well ! A snake's small eye blinks dull aud sby, And the lady's eyes they shrunk in her head, Each shrunk up to a serpent's eye, Aud with somewhat of malice, and more of dread, At Christabel she looked askance ! — One moment —... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1882 - 720 pages
...aeross her chest. And eouch'd her head upon her breast, And look'd askance at Christabel, — Jesu, Maria, shield her well ! A snake's small eye blinks...eye, And with somewhat of malice, and more of dread, AtChristalicl she look'd askance! — One moment, — and the sight was fled! But Christabel in dizzy... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 562 pages
...across her chest, 570 And crouched her head upon her breast, And looked askance at Christabel Jesu, Maria, shield her well ! A snake's small eye blinks...somewhat of malice, and more of dread, At Christabel she looked askance ! — One moment — and the sight was fled ! But Christabel in dizzy trance 580 Stumbling... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1883 - 382 pages
...couched her head upon her breast, And looked askance at Christabel— Jesu Maria, shield her well! song, A snake's small eye blinks dull and shy, And the lady's...somewhat of malice, and more of dread, At Christabel she looked askance ! — One moment—and the sight was fled! But Christabel, in dizzy trance Stumbling... | |
 | William Sloane Kennedy - 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...somewhat of malice, and more of dread, At Christabel she looked askance !" The Lamiae of antiquity were fabulous monsters with the head and breast of a woman... | |
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