Lamia Flashcards
Lamia as a tragic victim
‘her throat was serpent
,but the words she spake came as through bubbling honey, for loves sake’
longing to be human to feel loved
‘real are the dreams of gods
and smoothly pass their pleasures in a long immortal dream’
Lamia as a tragic victim
‘to see herself
escaped from so sore ills’
Lamia as a tragic victim
‘Old Appolonius -
from him keep me hid’
‘philosophy will
clip an angels wings’
Lycius as a tragic hero
‘swooning murmuring of love,
and pale with pain’
Lycius as a tragic hero
‘Lycius could not love in
half a fright’
Lycius as a tragic hero
‘and he
never thought to know’
about what Lamia’s real form is
Lycius as a tragic hero
‘delicious were
the words she sung’
Lycius as a tragic hero
‘and soon his eyes had
drunk her beauty up’
Lamia as a tragic villain
‘by playing
a womans part’
Fate
‘too short
was their bliss’
Fate / setting
‘that purple- lined
palace of sweet sin’
