Vassal's Speech

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A man stands outside a bower where a woman sits reading as he plays the ladykiller

The vassal’s speech, his taunting vein,
It thrill’d like venom thro’ her brain.

Artist

Name:: Metcalfe, Gerald Fenwick
Dates:: fl. 1890-1930
Country:: UK

Illustration

Subject:: Narratives
Format:: Portrait (taller)
Source:: Robarts Library, the Internet Archive

Book

Title:: The poems of Coleridge
Author:: Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Publisher:: London, New York: John Lane, n.d. [1907]
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A man stands outside a bower where a woman sits reading, apparently unperturbed as he plays the ladykiller.
This picture is an illustration for the poem Alice du Clos, or The Forked Tongue.

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