 | Barry Callaghan - Literary Collections - 1992 - 532 pages
...thither went With unexperienc't thought, and laid me down On the green bank, to look into the dear Smooth Lake, that to me seem'd another Sky. As I bent down to look, just opposite, A Shape within the wat'ry gleam appear' 'd Bending to look on me. I started back, It started back, but pleas'd I soon... | |
 | Arthur F. Marotti - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 404 pages
...Plain, then stood unmov'd Pure as th' expanse of Heav'n; I thither went With unexperienc't thought, and laid me down On the green bank, to look into the clear...bent down to look, just opposite, A Shape within the wat'ry gleam appear'd Bending to look at me, I started back, It started back, but pleas'd I soon return'd,... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - Fiction - 1993 - 390 pages
...plain, then stood unmoved Pure as the expanse of heaven; I thither went With unexperienced thought, and laid me down On the green bank, to look into the clear Smooth lake that to me seemed another sky. As I bent down to look, just opposite A shape within the watery gleam appeared,... | |
 | Anthony Low - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 286 pages
...when she is momentarily, but still innocently, held enthralled by her reflection in the smooth lake : As I bent down to look, just opposite, A Shape within the watry gleam appeerd Bending to look on me, I started back, It started back, but pleas'd I soon returnd,... | |
 | Russell B. Goodman - Pragmatism - 1995 - 332 pages
...of Milton, knew the scene in Book 4 of Paradise Lost where Eve first discovers her image in a pool; "As I bent down to look, just opposite, / A shape within the wat'ry gleam appeared / Bending to look on me." The recurrence of this figuration in Frost is, however,... | |
 | Bonnie Wheeler - Art - 1993 - 372 pages
...questions about her self and place and then is drawn to a mirror-like lake and a responsive shape within. As I bent down to look, just opposite, A Shape within the watry gleam appeerd Bending to look on me, I started back, It started back, but pleasd I soon returnd,... | |
 | Elizabeth Sauer - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1996 - 230 pages
...Discontents" (qtd in Silverman 118). In the lyrical space Eve recounts the experience of viewing the image: As I bent down to look, just opposite, A Shape within the wat'ry gleam appear 'd Bending to look on me, I started back, It started back, but pleas'd I soon return'd,... | |
 | Robert A. Erickson - Literary Collections - 1997 - 304 pages
...danger out of her mind. There was another moment of such concentrated apprehension in Eve's experience: As I bent down to look, just opposite, A Shape within the wat'ry gleam appear 'd Bending to look on me, I started back, It started back, but pleas'd I soon return'd,... | |
 | Anna Julia Cooper - History - 1998 - 374 pages
...plain, then stood unmoved Pure as the expanse of Heaven; I thither went With unexperienced thought and laid me down On the green bank, to look into the clear Smooth lake that to me seemed another sky. As I bent down to look, just opposite A shape within the watery gleam appeared,... | |
 | Kristin A. Pruitt, Charles Durham, Charles W. Durham - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 324 pages
...consciousness and hearing the murmur of waters, Eve follows the sound, then "With unexperienc't thought" lies down On the green bank, to look into the clear Smooth...bent down to look, just opposite, A Shape within the wat'ry gleam appear'd Bending to look on me, I started back, It started back, but pleas'd I soon return'd,... | |
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Not distant far from thence a murmuring sound Of waters issued from a cave, and spread Into a liquid plain, then stood unmoved, Pure as the expanse of heaven: I thither went With unexperienced thought, and laid me down On the green bank, to look into... 
