Keats, John, 1795-1821 . Lamia
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LAMIA



BY:JOHN KEATS
WITH ILLUSTRATIVE
DESIGNS.....BY....
....WILL.H.LOW.....



PHILADELPHIA
..MDCCCLXXXVIII.



COPYRIGHT. 1885 .by.
J.B LIPPINCOTT COMPANY.
J.B.LIPPINCOTT.COMPANY.
STEREOTYPING AND.PRINTERS.PHILADELPHIA.

   




    IN TESTIMONY OF LOYAL FRIENDSHIP
AND OF A COMMON FAITH IN
DOUBTFUL TALES FROM FAERYLAND
I DEDICATE TO
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
MY WORK IN THIS BOOK.



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Lamia.............Page1

Title...............3

Dedication..............5

Title to List of Drawings..........7

Head-pieces to List of Drawings........8,9

"A nymph, to whom all hoofed Satyrs knelt." Head-piece, Part I. .. 11

"On this side of Jove's clouds". ..........13

"And so he rested, on the lonely ground".......15

"The words she spake came, as through bubbling honey".........17

" 'I dreamt I saw thee, robed in purple flakes' " ......18

" 'She bathes unseen' " ...........19

" 'Pale grew her immortality, for woe of all these lovers' " ....20

"The guarded nymph near-smiling on the green".......21

"Into the green-recessed woods they flew".......23

Decoration-Daffodils............26

"By a clear pool, wherein she passioned to see herself"....27

"Foremost in the envious race".........30

"'Lycius, look back! and be some pity shown'"......32

"Swoon'd, murmuring of love, and pale with pain"...Page35

"The wide-spreaded night above her towers".......39

"As one came near with curl'd gray beard, sharp eyes, and smooth bald crown"41

"They had arrived before a pillar'd porch".......43

"Shut from the busy world of more incredulous." Tail-piece to Part I..45

"They were enthroned, in the even tide, upon a couch." Head-piece, Part II..45

"Deafening the swallow's twitter, came a thrill of trumpets". ...47

"She nothing said, but, pale and meek, arose and knelt before him" ..49

"It was the custom then to bring away the bride from home" ... 51

"And shut the chamber up, close, hush'd and still" .....53

"He met within the murmurous vestibule his young disciple" ... 55

"They all moved to the feast" ..........56

"What wreath for Lamia? What for Lycius? What for the sage, old Apollonius?"" 60

"Checking his love-trance, a cup he took full brimm'd"....61

"The sophist's eye, like a sharp spear, went through her utterly" ...64

"And Lycius' arms were empty of delight".......65

"And in its marriage robe the heavy body wound".....67

Decoration to Note ............69

Tail-piece-The History of the Book ......... 70