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" COLD eyelids that hide like a jewel Hard eyes that grow soft for an hour ; The heavy white limbs, and the cruel Red mouth like a venomous flower ; When these are gone by with their glories, What shall rest of thee then, what remain, O mystic and sombre... "
The Yale Literary Magazine
1906
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Green Pleasure and Grey Grief

Duchess - 1886 - 376 pages
...where Mrs. Wemyss• Bruno Bouverie, and a rather disconsolate Sir Chicksy are standing. CHAPTER XVI. Cold eyelids that hide like a jewel Hard eyes that grow soft for an hour. Memory grey with many a flowerless year. SWINBURNE. ' WHAT a day we're 'aving,' says Bruno, as they...
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A Popular Handbook to the National Gallery: Including, by Special ..., Volume 1

1888 - 742 pages
...and somewhat sensual beauty — the eyes, especially, being, "like Mars, to threaten or command" — Cold eyelids that hide like a jewel Hard eyes that...limbs, and the cruel Red mouth like a venomous flower. SWINBURNE : Dolores. 3. A CONCERT. Titian (Venetian : 1477-1576). See under 34, p. 138. The young man...
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Poems and Ballads: First Series

Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1889 - 344 pages
...See Love, and so refuse him ; For all who find him lose him, DOLORES. (NOTRE DAME DES SEPT DOULEURS.) COLD eyelids that hide like a jewel [ Hard eyes that...for an hour; The heavy white limbs, and the cruel I Red month like a venomous flower; \ When these are gone by with their glories, What shall rest of...
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The Sewanee Review, Volume 12

1904 - 550 pages
...it took all their beautiful faces To make one for Lily Adnir. Then read Mr. Swinburne's "Dolores:" Cold eyelids that hide like a jewel Hard eyes that...mouth like a venomous flower; When these are gone by with their glories, What shall rest of thee then, what remain, O mystic and somber Dolores, Our Lady...
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The History of Modern Painting, Volume 3

Richard Muther - 1896 - 900 pages
...his will. Swinburne has sung of " the lips intertwisted and bitten, where the foam is as blood," of " The heavy white limbs and the cruel Red mouth like a venomous flower." But the women of Burne-Jones know that this fervour is nolonger to be found upon the earth. The blood...
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Half Holidays at the National Gallery: Including a Complete Catalogue and ...

1902 - 110 pages
...one in nearly every Gallery of Europe. The type is that of a cruel and somewhat sensual beauty — Cold eyelids that hide like a jewel Hard eyes that...limbs, and the cruel Red mouth like a venomous flower. 675. Portrait of Mary Hogarth. William Hogarth (British, 1697-1764). See H2. The eldest of the artist's...
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The Sewanee Review, Volume 12

1904 - 546 pages
...it took all their beautiful faces To make one for Lily Adair. Then read Mr. Swinburne's "Dolores:" Cold eyelids that hide like a jewel Hard eyes that...mouth like a venomous flower; When these are gone by with their glories, What shall rest of thee then, what remain, O mystic and somber Dolores, Our Lady...
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The Poems of Algernon Charles Swinburne..., Volume 1

Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1904 - 352 pages
...For all who find him lose him, But all have found him fair. DOLORES (NOTRE-DAME DES SEPT DOULEURS) COLD eyelids that hide like a jewel Hard eyes that...mouth like a venomous flower ; When these are gone by with their glories, What shall rest of thee then, what remain, O mystic and sombre Dolores, Our Lady...
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The Necklace of Pandura

Reginald Gourlay - 1907 - 156 pages
...from Swinburne he recited, 'cause he said the description was so like me — "Soft lids that hide eyes like a jewel, Hard eyes that grow soft for an hour,...heavy white limbs, and the cruel Red mouth like a poisonous flower." Mrs. Barker Snarl — "Well, he had a nerve to talk that way to a young married...
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The History of Modern Painting, Volume 3

Richard Muther - 1907 - 452 pages
...his will. Swinburne has sung of " the lips intertwisted and bitten, where the foam is as blood," of "The heavy white limbs and the cruel Red mouth like a venomous flo\*er." But the women of Burne-Jones know that this fervour is no longer to be found upon the earth....
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