 | Oliver Bell Bunce - 1883 - 332 pages
...Porphyro grew faint ; 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 boddice ; by degrees Her rich attire creeps rustling to her knees : Half-hidden,... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1883 - 498 pages
...Porphyro grew faint : 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 boddice ; by degrees " Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1883 - 686 pages
...Porphyro grew faint : 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 boddice ; by degrees Her rich attire creeps rustling to her knees : Half-hidden,... | |
 | Walter Jackson Bate - 2009 - 784 pages
...her vespers done, Of all its wreathed pearls her hair she frees; Unclasps her warmed jewels one by one; Loosens her fragrant boddice; by degrees Her rich attire creeps rustling to her knees. But Keats, when he first started it, got himself into various troubles, one of which is an unwanted... | |
 | John Barnard - 1987 - 192 pages
...Angela, an old serving-woman, to conceal him in the heroine's chamber, where he watches her undress: 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,... | |
 | Lloyd Davis - 1993 - 272 pages
...Positioning us at a distance, with Porphyro, the text offers the pleasure of spying upon Madeline: "her vespers done, / Of all its wreathed pearls her hair she frees; / Unclasps her warmed jewels one by one; / Loosens her fragrant boddice" (226—29). Ours is neither the virgin's nor the joyously participatory... | |
 | Andrew Bennett - 1994 - 272 pages
...the gazing eye ',32 but this elides the full variety and fecundity of sensory stimulation involved: 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 rusding to her knees (lines... | |
 | John Keats, Robert Gittings - 1995 - 324 pages
...grew faint: 225 She 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 boddice; by degrees 237 poppied - poppies are associated with sleep because... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...Porphyro grew faint: She knelt, so pure a thing, so free from mortal taint. 26 Anon his heart revives: her vespers done, Of all its wreathed pearls her hair she frees; Unclasps her wrarmed jewels one by one; Loosens her fragrant boddice; by degrees Her rich attire creeps rustling... | |
 | Kenneth Koch - 1999 - 324 pages
...reader is rushed from one to the other. Rhymes can also slow down reading: 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,... | |
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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. 
