...twilight saints, and dim emblazonings, A shielded scutcheon blush'd with blood of queens and kings. Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw...breast, As down she knelt for heaven's grace and boon; Rose bloom fell on her hands, together prest, And on her hair a glory, like a saint: She seem'da splendid...

...that are not in existence ! " CHAPTER LI. JOY. Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw gules on Madeline's fair breast, As down she knelt for Heaven's grace and boon ; Rose-blossoms on her hands together prest. — Keali. IT was, indeed, Madeline, and no illusion or...

...twilight saints, and dim emblazonings, A shielded scutcheon blush'd with blood of queens and kings. " Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw...breast, As down she knelt for heaven's grace and boon ; Rose bloom fell on her hands, together press'd, And on her silver cross soft amethyst, And on her...

...serves to shake once again Porphyro's single-mindedness: Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together prest, And on her silver cross soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory . . . . . . Porphyro grew faint: She knelt, so pure a thing, so free from mortal taint. Now and in...

...used for his example a couplet from the "Eve of St. Agnes," a poem by the English poet John Keats: For on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw warm gules on Madeline's fair breast. Taking the emotion and poetry from these lines, Thouless ended up with the fairly bare and singularly...

...twilight saints, and dim emblazonings, A shielded scutcheon blush'd with blood of queens and kings. XXV Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw warm gules on Madeline's fair breast, 20 As down she knelt for heaven's grace and boon; Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together prest, And...

...Catholicism blend in this glass through which the pallid "wintry moon" of enthralling romance shone down And threw warm gules on Madeline's fair breast, As...boon; Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together prest, And on her silver cross soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory, like a saint: She seem'da splendid...

...came like a full-blown rose, (1. 136) 9 A poor, weak, palsy-stricken, churchyard thing, (1. 155) 10 e, though genius (1. 17-18) 11 As though a rose should shut, and be a bud again. (1. 243) 12 Noiseless as fear in a...

...the too dazzling splendour of the sun, or falling — " Rose bloom upon her hands, together prest, And on her silver cross soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory." But it is somewhat perilous to place one's heroine in such a light. A very little movement of her head...

...breast, As down she knelt for heaven's grace and boon; Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together prest, And on her silver cross soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory,16 like a saint: She seem'da splendid angel, newly drest, Save wings, for heaven: - Porphyro...