 Laura stretched her gleaming neck Like a rush-imbedded swan, Like a lily from the beck, Like a moonlit poplar branch, Like a vessel at the launch When its last restraint is gone. Backwards up the mossy glen Turned and trooped the goblin men, With their...  Poems - Page 4by Christina Georgina Rossetti - 1897 - 300 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Thomas Fields - 1884 - 988 pages
...together : They sounded kind and full of loves In the pleasant weather. Laura stretched her gleaming neck Like a rush-imbedded swan, Like a lily from the beck,...trooped the goblin men, With their shrill, repeated cry, u Come buy, come buy." When they reached where Laura was .They stood stock still upon the moss, •... | |
 | Frances Mary Owen - 1887 - 270 pages
...together, They sounded kind and full of loves In the pleasant weather. Laura stretched her gleaming neck Like a rush-imbedded swan, Like a lily from the beck,...vessel at the launch When its last restraint is gone. And Laura yields, draws near and listens to the luring voices, is told to taste the glowing fruit,... | |
 | Christina Georgina Rossetti - 1891 - 482 pages
...of doves Cooing all together : They sounded kind and full of loves Laura stretched her gleaming neck Like a rush-imbedded swan, Like a lily from the beck,...shrill repeated cry, " Come buy, come buy." When they readied where Laura was They stood stock still upon the moss, Leering at each other, Brother with queer... | |
 | Elisabeth Luther Cary - 1900 - 452 pages
...animal-faced men has passed we gain a sudden flashing glimpse of Laura stretching out her gleaming neck, Like a rush-imbedded swan, Like a lily from the beck,...vessel at the launch When its last restraint is gone. And delicately set among the visions of the fierce summer day is the exquisite picture of the two girls... | |
 | 1910 - 356 pages
...weather. 80 Laura stretched her gleaming neck Like a rush-imbedded swan, Like a lily from the beck,s Like a moonlit poplar branch, Like a vessel at the...With their shrill repeated cry, 'Come buy, come buy.' 90 When they reached where Laura was They stood stock still upon the moss, 1 An Australian marsupial,... | |
 | Frank Jenners Wilstach - 1916 - 540 pages
...MARLOWE. Stretching out his hand like the wings of a bird. — RABELAIS. Laura stretched her gleaming neck Like a rush-imbedded swan, Like a lily from the beck,...vessel at the launch When its last restraint is gone. — CG ROSSETTI. Stretched along, like a wounded knight. — SHAKESPEARE. Stretch like imploring arms.... | |
 | Arthur Mee - 1910 - 656 pages
...sounded kind and full of loves 1*1*^-^^. In the pleasant weather. Laura stretched her gleaming neck Like a rush-imbedded swan, Like a lily from the beck, .. Like a moonlit poplar branch. ¡P Like a vessel at the launch When its last restraint is gone. Backwards up the mossy glen Turned... | |
 | William Shirley Tomkinson - 1921 - 248 pages
...in Christina Rossetti's ' Goblin Market ' : Laura stretched her gleaming neck. Like a rush embedded swan, Like a lily from the beck, Like a moonlit poplar...vessel at the launch, When its last restraint is gone. and description of a runner : Her locks streamed like the torch Borne by a racer at full speed, Or... | |
 | 1918 - 580 pages
...continuously in the imagery of Goblin Market. Laura stretched her gleaming neck, Like a rush-embedded swan, Like a lily from the beck, Like a moonlit poplar...vessel at the launch When its last restraint is gone. The whole poem is a tissue of such loveliness crossed by odd freaks of homeliness, as in the passage... | |
 | Clara Calvo, Jean Jacques Weber - 1998 - 166 pages
...Who knows upon what soil they fed Their hungry thirsty roots?' '. ^aura stretched her gleaming neck Like a rush-imbedded swan, Like a lily from the beck,...vessel at the launch When its last restraint is gone. ! But sweet-tooth Laura spoke in haste: 'Good folk, I have no coin; To take were to purloin: I have... | |
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