 There with fantastic garlands did she come Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples That liberal shepherds give a grosser name. But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them : There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds Clambering to...  Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum - Page 1463by John Claudius Loudon - 1838Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1992 - 196 pages
...do 'Dead Men's Fingers' call them. 170 There on the pendent boughs her crownet weeds141 Clamb'ring to hang, an envious sliver broke, When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide, And mermaid-like awhile they bore her up, Which time she chanted snatches... | |
 | J. Robert Baker, Larry Nyberg, Victoria M. Tufano - Baptism - 1993 - 236 pages
...water, her breathless mouth was open. QUEEN THERE, on the pendent boughs her crownet weeds Clamb'ring to hang, an envious sliver broke; When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide; And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up: Which time she chanted snatches... | |
 | Terrence Ortwein - 1994 - 100 pages
...crowflowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples. There on the pendent boughs her crownet weeds Clamb'ring to hang, an envious sliver broke, When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide, And mermaid-like awhile they bore her up, Which time she chanted snatches... | |
 | Richard Courtney - Drama - 1995 - 274 pages
...But its simple beauty gives a pathetic picture. We hear how There on the pendent boughs her crownet weeds Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke,...weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide, And mermaid-like awhile they bore her up; Which time she chanted snatches... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1995 - 136 pages
...cold maids do dead men's fingers call them. There on the pendent boughs her crownet weeds Clamb'ring to hang, an envious sliver broke, When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide, And mermaid-like a while they bore her up, Which time she chanted snatches... | |
 | Bernard Brugière - English literature - 1995 - 344 pages
...mort, lorsque se brise un rameau malfaisant : There on the pendent boughs her crownet weeds Clamb'ring to hang, an envious sliver broke, When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook...16 Les délices du juge ressemblent fort au delight mélancolique. Le moment suprême est celui... | |
 | Robert Nye - Fiction - 1999 - 428 pages
...purples, That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them; There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds Clambering...weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook. (It's in the seventh scene of Act IV, of course. By the way, 'long purples' probably refers to purple... | |
 | Ronald Hayman - Education - 1999 - 116 pages
...cold maids do dead men's fingers call them. There on the pendent boughs her crownet weeds Clamb'ring to hang, an envious sliver broke, When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide, And mermaid-like awhile they bore her up, Which time she chanted snatches... | |
 | Leonard Shengold - Psychology - 2000 - 342 pages
...symbol of the mother's genitals — with a cannibalistic (vagina dentatd) aura. See, eg, Abraham (1923). When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide; And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up ... Till that her garments, heavy... | |
 | Tony Childs, Jackie Moore - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 196 pages
...purples, That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them: There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds Clambering...weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide, And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up; Which time she chanted snatches... | |
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