In the canon
Lamia
- Form
- Form Poem
- Year
- Year 1820
- Pages
- Pages 30
"Vermilion-spotted, golden, green, and blue": so Keats paints the serpent coiled in a Cretan wood, a creature of such dazzling colour she seems half rainbow, pleading in a woman's voice to be given a woman's body again. Hermes grants it, and the change is agony, her colours burning away until only a lovely girl remains, hurrying toward Corinth and the young Lycius she has already chosen.
Do not all charms fly / At the mere touch of cold philosophy?
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