Her blue-veined feet unsandal'd were, And wildly glittered here and there The gems entangled in her hair. I guess, 'twas frightful there to see A lady so richly clad as she — Beautiful exceedingly! Mary mother, save me now! (Said Christabel,) And who... Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision ; The Pains of Sleep - Page 7by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1816 - 64 pagesFull view - About this book
| M E. Hammond - 1858 - 352 pages
..." At that same hour, with a trembling step, Gwendaline descended to the vaults of the castle : " ' I guess, 'twas frightful there to see A lady so richly clad as she, — Beautiful exceedingly !' " The princess waited long for her faithless lover — he came not. She lingered until the dawn... | |
| Louise Chandler Moulton - 1858 - 450 pages
...unsandalled were, And wildly glittered here and there The gems entangled in her hair. I guess 't was frightful there to see A lady so richly clad as she — Beautiful exceedingly ! CHRISTABEL. IT was a fair scene, the one where we would transport our reader, in the old days when... | |
| Ireland - 1851 - 424 pages
...hailed it in God's name f' An albatross? A bird, my good sir, do you say? And—and— what's this? ' / guess 'twas frightful, there to see A lady so richly clad as she. Beautiful exceedingly /' Nay, our brisk beaux would not think it so ' frightful' to encounter a fair damsel." Mr. Gray "... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1861 - 448 pages
...bare ; Her blue-veined feet unsandal'd were, And wildly glittered here and there The gems entangled in her hair. I guess, 'twas frightful there to see...lady so richly clad as she — Beautiful exceedingly ! The lady strange made answer meet, And her voice was faint and sweet : — , Have pity on my sore... | |
| Sir John Thomas Gilbert - Annals of the Four Masters - 1861 - 436 pages
...God's name 1' An albatross? A bird, my good sir, do you say? And—and— what's this? ' / if ucus 'twas frightful, there to see A lady so richly clad as she, Beautiful exceedingly!' Nay, our brisk beaux would not think it so ' frightful' to encounter a fair damsel." Mr. Gray " feareth... | |
| Sir John Thomas Gilbert - Annals of the Four Masters - 1861 - 430 pages
...it in God's name t' An albatross? A bird, my good sir, do you say? And — and — what's this? ' / guess 'twas frightful, there to see A lady so richly clad as she, Beautiful exveedingly !' Nay, our brisk beaux would not think it so ' frightful' to encounter a fair damsel"... | |
| 1863 - 150 pages
...bare ; Her blue- veined feet unsandelled were ; And wildly glittered here and there The gems entangled in her hair. I guess 'twas frightful there to see...lady so richly clad as she — Beautiful exceedingly ! « • • * Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And... | |
| Australian periodicals - 1864 - 742 pages
...bare, Her blue- veined feet unsandall'd were, And wildly glittering here and there The gems entangled in her hair. I guess 'twas frightful there to see...lady so richly clad as she, Beautiful exceedingly." What is it that makes us at once endorse the poet's extraordinary statement that it was frightful to... | |
| John Wilson - 1865 - 444 pages
...bare ; Her blue-veined feet unsandal'd were, And wildly glittered here and there The gems entangled in her hair. I guess, 'twas frightful there to see...save me now ! (Said Christabel), And who art thou 1' The lady strange made answer meet, And her voice was faint and sweet." What poet ever before made... | |
| Charles Ames Washburn - 1865 - 638 pages
...was again on the broad sea of infinite love that makes up the universe of God. CHAPTER XXIII. *ir " I guess 'twas frightful there to see A lady so richly clad as she, Beautiful exceedingly." — COLERIDGE. " A lady wondrous fair ; But the rose of her cheek had faded away. And her cheek was... | |
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