 Of Adam's first wife, Lilith, it is told (The witch he loved before the gift of Eve,) That, ere the snake's, her sweet tongue could deceive, And her enchanted hair was the first gold. And still she sits, young while the earth is old, And, subtly of herself...  Our Living Poets: An Essay in Criticism - Sivu 202tekijä(t) Harry Buxton Forman - 1871 - 512 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Edmund Hodgson Yates - 1872 - 758 sivua
...assistance in compassing the fall of Adam. Elsewhere, in a sonnet, the preraphaelite poet has said : 'Of Adam's first wife Lilith it is told, The witch...deceive And her enchanted hair was the first gold ;' and in this larger treatment of the subject, the enchanted embodiment of merely sensuous beauty, serpentine... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - 1878 - 462 sivua
...TURNER. CLXI. LILITH. (FOR A PICTURE. ) „.„. F Adam's first wife, Lilith, it is told 'i ? i) / (The witch he loved before the gift of Eve), That,...herself contemplative, Draws men to watch the bright web she can weave, Till heart and body and life are in its hold. The rose and poppy are her flowers... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - 1878 - 416 sivua
...aim to fill the intervals of Love ! CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER. And And Till L1L1TH. (FOR A PICTURE.) F Adam's first wife, Lilith, it is told (The witch he...That, ere the snake's, her sweet tongue could deceive, her enchanted hair was the first gold. still she sits, young, while the earth is old, And, subtly of... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - 1878 - 418 sivua
...fill the intervals of Love ! CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER. And And Till CLXI. LILITH. (FOR A PICTURE. ) F Adam's first wife, Lilith, it is told (The witch he...That, ere the snake's, her sweet tongue could deceive, her enchanted hair was the first gold, still she sits, young, while the earth is old, And, subtly of... | |
 | Theodore Tilton - 1880 - 310 sivua
...of Eve. This "earlier bride " is rarely mentioned by poets, but Rosctti has the following lines : " Of Adam's first wife Lilith, it is told (The witch...ere the snake's, her sweet tongue could deceive." " The eleventh, a jacinth." p. 65. The words jacinth and hyacinth are etymologically the same. —Touching... | |
 | Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1881 - 362 sivua
...passionately and irretrievably, In what fond flight, how many ways and days ! SONNET LXXVIII. BODY'S BEAUTY. OF Adam's first wife, Lilith, it is told (The witch...herself contemplative, Draws men to watch the bright web she can weave, Till heart and body and life are in its hold. The rose and poppy are her flowers;... | |
 | Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1882 - 616 sivua
...and irretrievably, In what fond flight, how many ways and days ! • SONNET LXXVIII. BODY'S BEAUTY. OF Adam's first wife, Lilith, it is told (The witch...herself contemplative, Draws men to watch the bright web she can weave, Till heart and body 'and life are in its hold. The rose and poppy are her flowers... | |
 | Hesperus - 1882 - 238 sivua
...L:'::th. it is told ^-^ ( The witch be'.oved before the gift of Eve ) That, ere the SnakeX her siveet tongue could deceive, And her enchanted hair was the...sits, young while the earth is old, And. subtly of herse'.f con:emplative, Draws men to watch the liri^ht net she can weave, Till heart and body an :... | |
 | William Sharp - 1882 - 474 sivua
...anticipated, extending as it does to forty-nine stanzas. The story of Lilith, of whom it is told, " That, ere the snake's, her sweet tongue could deceive, And her enchanted hair was the first gold" — has all the significance of that of Lamia, but it both contains and is narrated with much more... | |
 | Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1883 - 64 sivua
...following sonnet is inscribed on the frame, and differs slightly from the published text. LADY LILITH. Of Adam's first wife, Lilith, it is told (The witch he loved before the gift of Eve,) That, ere thc snake's, her sweet tongue could deceive, And her enchanted hair was the first gold. And still she... | |
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