 | Mary Botham Howitt - 1847 - 221 Seiten
...knelt, so pure a thing, so free from mortal taint XXVI. Anon his heart revives: her vespers done. Of all its wreathed pearls her hair she frees; Unclasps...degrees Her rich attire creeps rustling to her knees: Hull-hidden, like a mermaid in sea-weed. Pensive awhile she dreams awake, and sees, In fancy, fair... | |
 | 1848
...She knelt, so pure a Lhlng, so free from mortal taint. Anon his heart revives: her vespers done, Of all its wreathed pearls her hair she frees ; Unclasps...rustling to her knees : Half-hidden, like a mermaid in sea- weed. Pensive awhile she dreams awake, and sees, In fancy, fair St Agnes In her bed, But dares"... | |
 | 1848
...knelt, so pure a thing, so free from mortal taint. " Anon his heart revives ; her vespers done, Of all its wreathed pearls her hair she frees ¡ Unclasps...her fragrant boddice ; by degrees Her rich attire cieeps rustling to her knees ; Half-hidden, like a mermaid in sea-weed, Pensive awhile she dreams awake,... | |
 | 1848
...She knelt, so purj a thing, so free from mortal taint. Anon her heart revives : her vespers ¿one, Of all its wreathed pearls her hair she frees ; Unclasps...her warmed jewels one by one : Loosens her fragrant bodice ; by degreci Her rich attire creeps rastlin^ to her knee». Half hidden, like a mermaid in see-weed,... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1852 - 404 Seiten
...wings, for heaven. — Porphyro grew faint, She knelt, so pure a thing, so free from mortal taint. Unclasps her warmed jewels one by one ; Loosens her...degrees Her rich attire creeps rustling to her knees : Half hidden, like a mermaid in sea-weed, Pensive awhile she dreams awake, and sees In fancy fair... | |
 | Dr. Doran (John) - 1854 - 417 Seiten
...maiden with a " niceness " that gives us as much right to look as Porphyro : — " Her vespers done, Of all its wreathed pearls her hair she frees ; Unclasps...mermaid in seaweed, Pensive awhile, she dreams awake." It is clear that this lady, although belonging to a more artificial society than Nais, thinks less... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1854
...taint. " Anon his heart revives : her vespers done, Of aJl its wreathed pearls her hair she free* ; Unclasps her warmed jewels one by one ; Loosens her...by degrees Her rich attire creeps rustling to her knee* : Half-hidden, like a mermaid in sea-weed, Pensive awhile she dreams awake, and see*, In fancy,... | |
 | Dr. Doran (John) - 1855 - 402 Seiten
...maiden with a " niceness" that gives us as much right to look as Porphyro : — " Her vespers done, Of all its wreathed pearls her hair she frees ; Unclasps...mermaid in seaweed, Pensive awhile, she dreams awake." It is clear that this lady, although belonging to a more artificial society than Nai's, thinks less... | |
 | Dr. Doran (John) - 1855 - 417 Seiten
...as Porphyro : — " Her vespers done, Of all its wreathed pearls her hair she frees ; Unclasps h#r warmed jewels one by one ; Loosens her fragrant boddice...mermaid in seaweed, Pensive awhile, she dreams awake." It is clear that this lady, although belonging to a more artificial society than Na'is, thinks less... | |
 | John Keats - 1855 - 350 Seiten
...knelt, so pure a thing, so free from mortal taint. XXVI. Anon his heart revives : her vespers done, Of all its wreathed pearls her hair she frees ; Unclasps...her warmed jewels one by one; Loosens her fragrant bodice ; by degrees Her rich attire creeps rustling to her knees : Half-hidden, like a mermaid in sea-weed,... | |
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Half-hidden, like a mermaid in seaweed, Pensive awhile she dreams awake, and sees In fancy, fair St. Agnes in her bed, But dares not look behind, or all the charm is fled. 
