 | William Cullen Bryant - 1876 - Страниц: 599
...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 - 1876 - Страниц: 562
...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 - 1883 - Страниц: 862
...; 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...perplex'd she lay ; Until the poppied warmth of sleep oppress'd Her soothed hmbs, and soul fatigued away ; Flown, like a thought, until the morrow day, Blissfully... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton- Dyer - 1878 - Страниц: 344
...; Unclasp'd her warmed jewels one by one ; Loosens her fragrant bodice ; by degrees Her rich attire creeps rustling to her knees : Half-hidden, like a...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,... | |
 | M. H. Abrams - 1975 - Страниц: 494
...support her "mermaid-like" upon the water; like Ophelia, she is engrossed in a fanciful dream-world.23 "Pensive awhile she dreams awake, and sees, / In fancy,...But dares not look behind, or all the charm is fled" (232234). This last line carries a double meaning: in following her ritual, Madeline must look neither... | |
 | John Barnard - 1987 - Страниц: 192
...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, Pensive awhile she dreams awake (lines 227-32) Is Porphyro, unobserved, no more than a voyeur whose excitement is meant to be shared... | |
 | Robert Brinkley, Keith Hanley - 1992 - Страниц: 396
...of the pentameter, to "dreaming thought"]; and sees / In fancy fair Saint Agnes in [changed to "on"] her bed / But dares not look behind or all the charm is dead" (the last word a replacement for "fl" - the beginning of "fled"). The final text of the stanza... | |
 | John Keats - 1994 - Страниц: 554
...her warmed jewels one by one; Loosens her fragrant bodice; by degrees Her rich attire creeps rusding to her knees: Half-hidden, like a mermaid in seaweed,...But dares not look behind, or all the charm is fled. xxvn Soon, trembling in her soft and chilly nest, In sort of wakeful swoon, perplex'd she lay, Until... | |
 | Andrew Bennett - 1994 - Страниц: 272
...Hoodwink'd with faery fancy' (line 7o). What Madeline 'sees' are 'visions wide' (line 2o2) or waking dreams: Pensive awhile she dreams awake, and sees, In fancy,...But dares not look behind, or all the charm is fled. (lines 232-4) The distinction between looking in reality and looking 'in fancy' is clearly marked by... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - Страниц: 936
...by one; Loosens her fragrant boddice; by degrees Her rich attire creeps rustling to her knees: 230 Half-hidden, like a mermaid in sea-weed, Pensive awhile...But dares not look behind, or all the charm is fled, 27 Soon, trembling in her soft and chilly nest, In sort of wakeful swoon, perplex'd she lay, Until... | |
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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. 
