...Vermilion-spotted, golden, green and blue ; Striped like a zebra, freckled like a pard, Eyed liked a peacock, and all crimson barr'd ; And full of silver...inter-wreathed Their lustres with the gloomier tapestries— She seem'd, at once, some penanced lady elf, Some demon'd mistress, or the demon's self. Upon her crest...

...moving skin, the colors and patterns on her "rainbow-sided" body also suggest those of other animals: Striped like a zebra, freckled like a pard, Eyed like a peacock, and all crimson barr'd. At the same time a "complete" set of teeth, of the sort often described in pastoral love imagery, flash...

...voice', can feel only 'pity' (I. 35-7). She was a gordian shape of dazzling hue, Vermilion-spotted, golden, green, and blue; Striped like a zebra, freckled like a pard, Eyed like peacock, and all crimson barred; And full of silver moons, that, as she breathed, Dissolved, or brighter...

...associated with, but clearly emblematic of, night and the rule of Diana as Selene or Phoebe. Her markings, "full of silver moons, that, as she breathed, / Dissolv'd or brighter shone," and crest of "wannish fire / Sprinkled with stars" (1.50-1, 57-8) are the heraldry of the moon goddess,...

...possessed the attributes and intelligence of all the other animals in Paradise, then Keats's Lamia, "Striped like a zebra, freckled like a pard, / Eyed like a peacock, and all crimson barr'd" (I, 49-50), dappled in beauty and varioloid in effect, splendidly patterned and malignantly pocked,...

...Bright, and cirque-couchant in a dusky brake. She was a gordian shape of dazzling hue, Vermilion-spotted, golden, green, and blue; Striped like a zebra, freckled like a pard, 50 Eyed like a peacock, and all crimson barr'd; And full of silver moons, that, as she breathed, Dissolv'd,...

...Consider Keats's description of Lamia: She was a gordian shape of dazzling hue, Ver million-spotted, golden, green, and blue; Striped like a zebra, freckled like a pard, Eyed like a peacock, and crimson barr'd; And full of silver moons, that, as she breathed, Dissolv'd, or brighter shone, or interwreathed...

...air, in a tobacco trance (Collected Poems, pp. 11-12) The snake-woman in Keats's "Lamia" (182o) was "Striped like a zebra, freckled like a pard, / Eyed like a peacock, and all crimson barred" (t, lines 49-50); and similarly the speaker of Eliot's poem seems to comprise a whole zoo....

...gnomed mine Unweave a rainbow. 5461 'Lamia' She was a gordian shape of dazzling hue, Vermilllon-spotted, nie barred. 5462 'Lamia' Love in a hut, with water and a crust, Is - Love, forgive us! - cinders, ashes,...

...Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy— made a gorgeous vampire of his lamia, a nymph transformed into a serpent "Striped like a zebra, freckled like a pard, / Eyed like a peacock, and all crimson barred." Choerilus: A poet of lasos in Caria and a camp follower of Alexander the Great, whose victories...