 | Lucius Hudson Holt - 1915 - 952 pagina’s
...arms the ninid she took, Ah wel-a-day! And with low voice and doleful look These? words did say: " Bacchus ever fair and ever young: The jolly god in triumph comes; Sound the trumpets; beat ! Tbou knowest to-niglit, and wilt know toinorrjw, Thia mark of my shame, this seal of my sorrow; 170... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - 712 pagina’s
...her arms the maid she took, Ah wel-a-day! And with low voice and doleful look These words did say: l wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands...away. [1819] III. THE FAILURE OF REVOLUTION: SOLUTIONS faintly thou warrest, For this is alone in Thy power to declare, That in the dim forest Thou heard'st... | |
 | Vida Dutton Scudder - 1919 - 572 pagina’s
...the maid she took, Ah well-a-day! 265 And with low voice and doleful look These words did say: ' ' In the touch of this bosom there worketh a spell,...Christabel ! Thou knowest tonight, and wilt know tomorrow, 270 This mark of my shame, this seal of my sorrow ; But vainly thou warrest, For this is alone in Thy... | |
 | Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi - 1992 - 332 pagina’s
...describe Geraldine's bosom as "lean and old and foul of hue," Geraldine hypnotizes Christabel, saying: In the touch of this bosom there worketh a spell,...to-morrow, This mark of my shame, this seal of my sorrow. (Coleridge, Poems 224-25) Polidori's account states only that "L[ord] Bfyron] repeated some verses... | |
 | Jack Stillinger - 1994 - 268 pagina’s
...her arms the maid she took, Ah wel-a-day! And with low voice and doleful look These words did say: In the touch of this bosom there worketh a spell, Which is lord of thy utterance, Christabel! As soon as the wicked Bosom, with the mysterious sign of Evil stamped thereby, touches Christabel,... | |
 | Nina Auerbach - 1995 - 244 pagina’s
..."Behold!" is exactly what we cannot do, just as Christabel, confronted with the bosom, cannot speak: "In the touch of this bosom there worketh a spell, / Which is lord of thy utterance, Christabel!" (ll. 267-68). The bosom—or charismatic nonbosom—feeds dreams but blocks narrative. It may be large;... | |
 | Ada Neiger - 1998 - 466 pagina’s
...contatto con Geraldine che, seducente e vampiresca, suggellerà l'unione con lei, sigillandone la parola. In the touch of this bosom there worketh a spell,...is alone in Thy power to declare, That in the dim foresi Thou heard'st a low moaning. And found'st a brighi lady, surpassingly fair; And didst bring... | |
 | Andrew Elfenbein - 1999 - 284 pagina’s
...her arms the maid she took, Ah well-a-day! And with low voice and doleful look These words did say: 'In the touch of this bosom there worketh a spell,...to-morrow, This mark of my shame, this seal of my sorrow.' (263-70) As Géraldine begins to speak, Coleridge dramatically increases the number of syllables per... | |
 | Andrew Elfenbein - 1999 - 282 pagina’s
...control. Even in the first version of the poem, Geraldine's ambivalence is present, as when she tells Christabel, "Thou knowest to-night, and wilt know...to-morrow, / This mark of my shame, this seal of my sorrow" (269-70). Her "shame" and "sorrow" disrupt Geraldine's heterosexualizing potential as an all-powerful... | |
 | Andrew Bennett - 1999 - 288 pagina’s
...'Christabel': Geraldine puts a spell on Christabel so that she cannot tell anyone what she has experienced: 'In the touch of this bosom there worketh a spell, / Which is lord of thy utterance' (lines 267-8). And while Geraldine has the power to silence Christabel, her own voice is itself repeatedly... | |
| |
And with low voice and doleful look These words did say: "In the touch of this bosom there worketh a spell, Which is lord of thy utterance, Christabel... 
