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 | John Barnard - Literary Collections - 1987 - 192 pages
...religious and sensual ecstasy. The Eve of St Agnes begins and ends with the Beadsman: St Agnes' Eve - Ah, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold; The hare limped trembling through the frozen grass, And silent was the flock in woolly fold:... | |
 | Gilbert Meilaender - Religion - 2010 - 164 pages
...gives these illustrations of each:14 (1) It was very cold. ( 2 ) There were 1 3 degrees of frost. ( 3 ) "Ah, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers was a-cold; The hare limped trembling through the frozen grass. And silent was the flock in wooly fold:... | |
 | Kathy Acker - England - 1989 - 134 pages
...describe Sutton Place — where Ashington House lay — for I miss it so deeply. St. Agnes' Eve — Ah, bitter chill it was! The owl for all his feathers, was a-cold; The hare limped trembling through the frozen grass, And silent was the flock in woolly fold;... | |
 | John Hollander - Poetry - 1990 - 280 pages
...conjurer's evasion. Similarly with Keats's shivering bunny in The Eve of St. Agnes: St. Agnes Eve — ah, bitter chill it was! The owl for all his feathers was a-cold; The hare limped trembling through the frozen grass . . . Here, the awkward consonantal cluster... | |
 | Karl Kroeber, Gene W. Ruoff - Poetry - 1993 - 520 pages
...cold prepares a series of contrasts the poem is steadily to develop and expand. St. Agnes' Eve — Ah, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold; The hare limp'd trembling through the frozen grass. And silent was the flock in woolly fold:... | |
 | Garrett Hardin - Business & Economics - 1995 - 350 pages
...rewrite literature to take account of this insight of physics? Keats, remember, wrote: St. Agnes' Eve — Ah bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold — when, had he possessed the knowledge of physics that developed soon after his death —... | |
 | Rutherford Aris - Technology & Engineering - 1994 - 300 pages
...left the reader to judge the conditions from the plain statement of the first line: St. Agnes' Eve — Ah, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold; The hare limped trembling through the frozen grass, And silent was the flock in wooly fold.... | |
 | Stuart M. Sperry - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 376 pages
...cold prepares a series of contrasts the poem is steadily to develop and expand. St. Agnes' Eve — Ah, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold; The hare limp'd trembling through the frozen grass, And silent was the flock in woolly fold:... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...the sedge has wither'd from the lake. And no birds sing. THE EVE OF ST. AGNES 1 St. Agnes' Eve — Ah, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold; The hare limp'd trembling through the frozen grass, And silent was the flock in woolly fold:... | |
 | John Keats, Robert Gittings - Literary Collections - 1995 - 324 pages
...7 censer - container for incense. 1 6 orot Vies - places where prayers are said. ST. AGNES' EVE — Ah, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold; The hare limp'd trembling through the frozen grass, And silent was the flock in woolly fold:... | |
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