...twilight saints, with dim emblazonings, A shielded 'scutcheon blush'd with blood of queens and kings. ' Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw...soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory, like a saint. Her vespers done, Of all its wreathed pearls her hair she frees ; Unclasps her wanned jewels one by...

...twilight saints, and dim emblazonings, A shielded scutcheon blush'd with blood of queens and kings. " Full on this casement shone the wintry moon," And...amethyst, And on her hair a glory, like a saint : She seem'da splendid angel, newly drest, Save wings, for heaven : Porphyro grew faint : She knelt, so pure...

...Madeline but, as she kneels to pray, also serves to shake once again Porphyro's single-mindedness: Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together prest, And...silver cross soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory . . . . . . Porphyro grew faint: She knelt, so pure a thing, so free from mortal taint. Now and in...

...used for his example a couplet from the "Eve of St. Agnes," a poem by the English poet John Keats: For on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw warm gules on Madeline's fair breast. Taking the emotion and poetry from these lines, Thouless ended up with the fairly bare and singularly...

...twilight saints, and dim emblazonings, A shielded scutcheon blush'd with blood of queens and kings. XXV Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw warm gules on Madeline's fair breast, 20 As down she knelt for heaven's grace and boon; Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together prest, And...

...ignores what the poem is at pains to stress, the awe that Porphyro feels before Madeline's beauty. And on her hair a glory, like a saint: She seemed a splendid angel, newly dressed, Save wings, for Heaven - Porphyro grew faint; She knelt, so pure a thing, so free from mortal...

...Catholicism blend in this glass through which the pallid "wintry moon" of enthralling romance shone down And threw warm gules on Madeline's fair breast, As...amethyst, And on her hair a glory, like a saint: She seem'da splendid angel, newly drest, Save wings, for heaven. (1l.218-24) Here Madeline becomes Agnes...

...in its right place, veiling the too dazzling splendour of the sun, or falling — " Rose bloom upon her hands, together prest, And on her silver cross soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory." But it is somewhat perilous to place one's heroine in such a light. A very little movement of her head...

...came like a full-blown rose, (1. 136) 9 A poor, weak, palsy-stricken, churchyard thing, (1. 155) 10 e, though genius (1. 17-18) 11 As though a rose should shut, and be a bud again. (1. 243) 12 Noiseless as fear in a...

...blood of queens and kings. xxv Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw warm gules15 on Madeline's fair breast, As down she knelt for heaven's...her silver cross soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory,16 like a saint: She seem'da splendid angel, newly drest, Save wings, for heaven: - Porphyro...