...in the stanza form he borrowed from Spenser's 'Faerie Queene', is colourful, evocative and sensuous: And still she slept an azure-lidded sleep, In blanched linen, smooth, and lavendered, While he from forth the closet brought a heap Of candied apple, quince, and plum, and gourd...

...recall a sort of debased version of the reverie in Keats' "The Eve of St. Agnes": And still she slept in azure-lidded sleep, In blanched linen, smooth, and...With jellies soother than the creamy curd, And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon; Manna and dates, in argosy transferr'd From Fez; and spiced dainties,...

...almost decadent in their sensuousness. Do you recall the feast that Porphyry lays out for Madeline? While he from forth the closet brought a heap Of candied...With jellies soother than the creamy curd, And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon; Manna and dates in argosy transferr'd From Fez; and spiced dainties, every...

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...rightly and fully without a falter: Candied apple, quince and plum and gourd, And jellies smoother than the creamy curd, And lucent syrups tinct with cinnamon, Manna and dates in Argosy transferred From Fez; and spiced dainties, every one From silken Samarkand to cedared Lebanon. He repeated...

...soft he set A table, and, half-anguish'd, threw thereon A cloth of woven crimson, gold, and jet. * * * While he, from forth the closet, brought a heap Of...candied apple, quince, and plum, and gourd; With jellies smoother than the creamy curd, Dinners and Dining 851 And lucent syrups tinct with cinnamon; Manna...

...quince, and plum, and gourd (by which he meant melon, and Melinda Wolfe provided cantaloupe), 2 1 0 jellies soother than the creamy curd, and lucent syrups, tinct with cinnamon, all right, Janet could smell it from where she stood, and dates, too — all of which Porphyro had...

...heart of capitalist ideology, and this is the focus of the following chapter. CHAPTER 3 Place settings And still she slept an azure-lidded sleep, In blanched linen, smooth, and lavendered, While he from forth the closet brought a heap Of candied apple, quince, and plum, and gourd,...

...in the poem, this sumptuousness is pressed to a point which some readers may find rank and cloying: And still she slept an azure-lidded sleep, In blanched linen, smooth, and lavendered, While he from forth the closet brought a heap Of candied apple, quince, and plum, and gourd;...

...like the lover in 'The Eve of St. Agnes,'" he said, and recited the lines from the Keats poem to her: And still she slept an azure-lidded sleep, In blanched linen, smooth, and lavendered, While he from forth the closet brought a heap Of candied apple, quince, and plum, and gourd;...