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’
