Yea, I am found the woman in all tales, The face caught always in the story's face; I Helen, holding Paris by the lips, Smote Hector through the head ; I Cressida So kissed men's mouths that they went sick or mad. Stung right at brain with me ; I Guenevere... The queen-mother. Rosamond. 2 plays - Page 170by Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1860Full view - About this book
| Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1866 - 240 pages
...Since the sun moved. Ros. Ah girl, you fail fair truth ; He doth love me, would let me take his name To soil, his face to set my feet upon ; But love is...Delicate with such gold in its soft ways And my mouth honeyed so for Launcelot, Out of good things he chose his golden soul To be the pearlwork of my treasuring... | |
| Harold Nicolson - Poets, English - 1926 - 228 pages
...moments in her concubinage, conscious that she has become thereby one of the eternal figures of romance : Yea, I am found the woman in all tales, The face caught...its soft ways And my mouth honied so for Launcelot, . . . and with it all, a little frightened : Fear is the cushion for the feet of love Painted with... | |
| Harold Nicolson - Poets, English - 1926 - 224 pages
...moments in her concubinage, conscious that she has become thereby one of the eternal figures of romance : Yea, I am found the woman in all tales, The face caught...its soft ways And my mouth honied so for Launcelot, . . . and with it all, a little frightened : Fear is the cushion for the feet of love Painted with... | |
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