 She was a gordian shape of dazzling hue, Vermilion-spotted, golden, green, and blue ; Striped like a zebra, freckled like a pard, Eyed like a peacock, and all crimson barr'd ; And full of silver moons, that, as she breathed, Dissolved, or brighter shone,...  The Eclectic Review - Page 200edited by - 1820Full view - About this book
 | Leigh Hunt - 1820 - 432 pages
...once with shuddering and compassion. She was a gordian shape a! dazzling hue, Verinillion-spotled, golden, green, and blue; Striped like a zebra, freckled like a pard, Eyed like a peacock, and. all crimson-barr'd ; * And full of silver moons, that, as she breathed, Dissolv'd or brighter shone, or... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - English poetry - 1840 - 552 pages
...Bright, and cirque-couchant in a dusky brake. She was a gordian shape of dazzling hue, Vermilion-spotted, golden, green, and blue ; Striped like a zebra, freckled like a pard, Eyed like a peacock, and all crimson-barr'd ; And full of silver moons, that, as she breathed. Dissolved, or brighter shone, or... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - English poetry - 1840 - 554 pages
...like a peacock, and all crimson-barr'd ; ' And full of silver moons, that, as she breathed, Dissolved, or brighter shone, or interwreathed Their lustres with the gloomier tapestries — So minbow-sided, touch'd with miseries, She seem'd, at once, some penanced lady elf, Sume demon's mistress,... | |
 | John Keats - English poetry - 1841 - 254 pages
...Bright, and cirque-couchant in a dusky brake. She was a gordian shape of dazzling hue, Vermilion-spotted, golden, green, and blue ; Striped like a zebra, freckled...; And full of silver moons, that, as she breathed, Dissolved, or brighter shone, or interwreathed Their lustres with the gloomier tapestries — So rainbow-sided,... | |
 | American literature - 1887 - 890 pages
...as that of Lamia, the witch-serpent : " She was a gordian shape of dazzling hue, Vermilion-spotted, golden, green, and blue ; Striped like a zebra, freckled like a pard, Eyed like a peacock, and all crimson-barred." This is the style of "fine excess," the art of " loading every rift with ore." No... | |
 | John Keats - English poetry - 1846 - 340 pages
...and cirque-couchant in a dusky brake. She was a gordian shape of dazzling hue, Vermillion-spotted, golden, green, and blue ; Striped like a zebra, freckled...; And full of silver moons, that, as she breathed, Dissolved, or brighter shone, or interwreathed Their lustres with the gloomier tapestries — So rainbow-sided,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1847 - 638 pages
...Bright, and cirque-couchant in a dusky brake. She was a gordian shape of dazzling hue, Vermilion-spotted, golden, green, and blue; Striped like a zebra, freckled like a pard, Eyed like a peacock, and all crimson-barr'd ; And full of silver moons, that, as she breathed, Dissolved, or brighter shone, or... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - English poetry - 1847 - 556 pages
...cirque-couchant in a dusky brake. She was a gordmn shnpc of dazzling hue, Vermilion-spotted, golden, tjreeu, and blue ; Striped like a zebra, freckled like a pard, Eyed like a peacock, and all crimron-harr'd ; And full of silver moons, that, as she breathed, Dissolved, or brighter shone, or... | |
 | 1848 - 530 pages
...in its attractions glitter like the Athenian serpent — • " of dazzling hue, Vermilion-spotted, golden, green, and blue ; Striped like a zebra, freckled like a pard, Kyed like a peacock, and all crimsoil-barr'd," — yet doubt I not that some of its pages will be read... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - English poetry - 1853 - 548 pages
...cirque-couchant in a dusky brake. She was a gordian shape of dazzling hue. Vermilion-spoiled, golden, preen, and blue ; Striped like a zebra, freckled like a pard, Eyed like a peacock, and nil erimson-liarr'd ; And full of silver moniť, that, ns she breathed, Dissolved, or brighter shone,... | |
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