 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1876 - 599 pages
...Loosens her fragrant bodice ; by degrees Her rich attire creeps rustling to her knees ; Half hidden, like a mermaid in sea-weed, Pensive awhile she dreams...But dares not look behind, or all the charm is fled. XXVII. Soon, trembling in her soft and chilly nest, In sort of wakeful swoon, perplexed she lay, Until... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1876 - 562 pages
...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, In fancy, fair Saint Agnes in her bed, But dares not look behind, or nil the charm is fled. Soon, trembling in her... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Anecdotes - 1883 - 860 pages
...Loosens her fragrant bodice ; by degrees Her rich attire creeps rustling to her knees : Half-hidden, like a mermaid in sea-weed, Pensive awhile she dreams...; Until the poppied warmth of sleep oppress'd Her soothed hmbs, and soul fatigued away ; Flown, like a thought, until the morrow day, Blissfully haven'd... | |
 | Royal academy of arts - 166 pages
...Thos. Schafer. ., TF Dicksee. "By degrees Her rich attire creeps rustling to her knees : Half hidden, like a mermaid in seaweed, - Pensive awhile she dreams...dares not look behind, or all the charm is fled." ' The Eve of St. Agnes,' Keats. 984 — DIVES AND LAZARUS Theresa' Thorny . croft. 985 — FORBIDDEN... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton- Dyer - 1878 - 344 pages
...Loosens her fragrant bodice ; by degrees Her rich attire creeps rustling to her knees : Half-hidden, like a mermaid in sea-weed, Pensive awhile she dreams...dares not look behind, or all the charm is fled." Formerly, too, in Scotland, a number of young men and women met together on St. Agnes's Eve at midnight,... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 pages
...Loosens her fragrant bodice ; by degrees Her rich attire creeps rustling to lier knees; Half-hidden, like a mermaid in sea-weed, Pensive awhile she dreams...in her bed, But dares not look behind, or all the chanr is fled. Soon, trembling in her soft and chilly nest, In sort of wakeful swoon, perplexed she... | |
 | Herbert Courthope Bowen - 1879 - 318 pages
...for heaven : — Porphyro grew faint : * She knelt, so pure a thing, so free from mortal taint. 225 Soon, trembling in her soft and chilly nest, In sort...lay, Until the poppied warmth of sleep oppress'd Her soothed limbs, and soul fatigued away ; Flown, like a thought, until the morrow-day ; 230 Blissfully... | |
 | John Keats - 1900 - 526 pages
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 | 1880 - 976 pages
...Loosens her fragrant bodice; by degrees Her rich attire creeps rustling to her knees; Half hidden, like a mermaid in sea-weed, Pensive awhile she dreams...lay. Until the poppied warmth of sleep oppress'd Her soothed limbs, and soul fatigued away; Flown, like a thought, until the morrow-day; Blissfully haven'd... | |
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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. 
