Lamia Flashcards
the ever
smitten hermes
too find where this sweet nymph
prepared her secret bed
palpitating
snake
she was a gordian shape
of dazzling hue
striped like a zebra
freckled like a pard
gloomier
tapestries
some demons mistress
or demon’s self
she had a woman’s mouth
and all pearls complete
her throat was serpent, but the words she spake
came as through bubbling honey
he heard a mournful voice, such as once heard
in gentle heart, destroys all pain but pity
showing a manipulation of Hermes’ emotions. It foreshadows the pity he will feel for Lamia, and therefore his will to grant her favour.
a celestial heart burnt from his winged heels to either ear,
that from a whiteness, as the lily clear, blush’d into roses ‘mid his golden hair
hermes on his pinions lay,
like a stooped falcon ere he takes his prey
her eyes in torture fix’d and anguish drear,
hot glaz’d and wide
- creates a sense of pain when Lamia changes for
love in a
palace is perhaps at last
how are appolonius’ eyes described?
‘keen, cruel,
‘demon
‘sharp’
perceant, stinging’
eyes’
your soul in mine and
labyrinth you here
the house P2
‘golden string’
‘unveiled the summer heaven blue and clear’
‘marble shafts’
‘shrill of trumpets’
the ghost of folly is
haunting my sweet dreams
with curled grey beard,
sharp eyes, and smooth bald crown
slow stepped, and
robed in philosophic gown
end of chapter 1
how does it warn us
‘what woe afterwards befell’
