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" The blisses of her dream so pure and deep At which fair Madeline began to weep, And moan forth witless words with many a sigh; While still her gaze on Porphyro would keep; Who knelt, with joined hands and piteous eye, Fearing to move or speak, she look'd... "
Favourite English Poems: Thomson to Tennyson, 1700-1860 - Page 110
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From Milton to Tennyson: Masterpieces of English Poetry

Louis Du Pont Syle - English poetry - 1894 - 496 pages
...295 Her blue affrayed eyes wide open shone : Upon his knees he sank, pale as smooth-sculptured stone. Her eyes were open, but she still beheld, Now wide...sleep: There was a painful change, that nigh expell'd 300 The blisses of her dream so pure and deep, At which fair Madeline began to weep, And moan forth...
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From Milton to Tennyson: Masterpieces of English Poetry

Louis Du Pont Syle - English poetry - 1894 - 478 pages
...blue affrayed eyes wide open shone : Upon his knees he sank, pale as smooth-sculptured stone. XXXIV. Her eyes were open, but she still beheld, Now wide...her sleep : There was a painful change, that nigh expelPd 30* At which fair Madeline began to weep, And moan forth witless words with many a sigh ; While...
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The Visionary Company: A Reading of English Romantic Poetry

Harold Bloom - Literary Criticism - 1971 - 516 pages
...centered upon her lover. For a moment she is caught, painfully and finely, between contending realities: Her eyes were open, but she still beheld. Now wide...hands and piteous eye, Fearing to move or speak, she look'd so dreamingly. The real lover before her, with his sad eyes, his "pallid, chill, and drear"...
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English Romantic Poets: Modern Essays in Criticism

M. H. Abrams - Literary Criticism - 1975 - 494 pages
...seem that she does at this point wake up: "Suddenly / Her blue affrayed eyes wide open shone. . . . Her eyes were open, but she still beheld, / Now wide awake, the vision of her sleep" (295-299) . Not unreasonably, we might think, she weeps, sighs, and "moanfs] forth witless words" (303)....
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Shifting the Burden: The Struggle Over Growth and Corporate Taxation

Cathie J. Martin - Business & Economics - 1991 - 298 pages
...one but myself to blame for its shortcomings. Introduction: Corporate Taxation in Pursuit of Growth Her eyes were open, but she still beheld. Now wide...expell'd The blisses of her dream so pure and deep. John Keats. "The Eve of St. Agnes" Paradigm shifts are intriguing: those Saint Agnes Eve moments when...
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Romantic Poetry: Recent Revisionary Criticism

Karl Kroeber, Gene W. Ruoff - Poetry - 1993 - 520 pages
...partly wakes as her "blue affrayed eyes" (296) open, that awakening is not an altogether happy one. Her eyes were open, but she still beheld. Now wide...her dream so pure and deep. At which fair Madeline bgan to weep. And moan forth witless words with many a sigh; While still her gaze on Porphyro would...
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The Poems of John Keats

John Keats - Poetry - 1994 - 554 pages
...blue affrayed eyes wide open shone: Upon his knees he sank, pale as smooth-sculptured stone. xxxtv Her eyes were open, but she still beheld, Now wide...which fair Madeline began to weep, And moan forth widess words with many a sigh; While still her gaze on Porphyro would keep; Who knelt, with joined...
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Keats, Narrative and Audience: The Posthumous Life of Writing

Andrew Bennett - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 272 pages
...'blue affrayed' (line 296). Ultimately, her refusal to see threatens to destroy Porphyro's plan : ' Her eyes were open, but she still beheld, / Now wide awake, the vision of her sleep' (lines 298-9). And it is, in particular, the visible change wrought in Porphyro as she wakes, that...
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Keats the Poet

Stuart M. Sperry - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 376 pages
...partly wakes as her "blue aff rayed eyes" (296) open, that awakening is not an altogether happy one. Her eyes were open, but she still beheld, Now wide awake, the vision of her sleep: 10 See The Letters of John Keats, éd. Hyder Edward Rollins (Cambridge, Mass., 1958), n, 162-64, 182-83,...
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The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry

Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...Her blue affrayed eyes wide open shone: Upon his knees he sank, pale as smooth-sculptured stone. 34 Her eyes were open, but she still beheld, Now wide...of her sleep: There was a painful change, that nigh cxpcll'd 300 The blisses of her dream so pure and deep: At which fair Madeline began to weep, And moan...
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