 | Henry Lyttlejohn - 1870 - 386 Seiten
...misogamist, and I, are looking up the chimney all this while ; we would blush to play the spy, when Of all its wreathed pearls her hair she frees ; Unclasps...warmed jewels one by one ; Loosens her fragrant boddice ; and the law of gravitation asserts its customary influence over the rich attire, in which our Daisy... | |
 | John Keats, James Russell Lowell, Richard Monckton Milnes Houghton (baron).) - 1871 - 342 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,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 Seiten
...knelt, so pure a thing, so free from mortal taint. XXVI. Anon his heart revives ; her vespers done, Of in foul sluttish hairs, Which, once untangled, much...misfortune bodes : This is the hag, when maids lie o bodice ; by degrees Her rich attire creeps rustling to her knees ; Half hidden, like a mermaid in sea-weed,... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 552 Seiten
...knelt so pure a thing, so free from mortal taint. 225 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 : 230 Half-hidden, like a mermaid... | |
 | John Keats - 1874 - 320 Seiten
...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 seaweed,... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - 240 Seiten
...She 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 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,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 560 Seiten
...Loosens her fragrant bodice; by degrees Her rich attire creeps rustling to her knees: Half hidden, like a mermaid in seaweed, • Pensive awhile she dreams awake, and sees, lu fancy, fair Saint Agnes in her brd. But dares not look behind, or all the charm is fled. Soon, trembling... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1876 - 599 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,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1876 - 562 Seiten
...thing, so free from mortal taint. Anon his heart revives : her vespers done, Of all its wreathed [iearls 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 seaweed,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1883 - 860 Seiten
...her silver cross soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory, like a saint. Her vespers done, Of all ita 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. 
