<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=560767" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lamia in Blackburn Wood</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">[In the form of traditional folk ballad.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In Blackburn Wood a maid betrothed<br>that rode a garlanded mare<br>by cutthroat maimed for maidenhood<br>writhed in crimson there.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dislimbed beneath a shrieking sun<br>and left for carrion-kite, <br>the savaged maid survived their beaks, <br>and slithered into night.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">II</div><div style="margin:10px 0">By summer's end, to Blackburn Wood<br>a sheath of night returned; <br>beneath its hood and tapered robe<br>maiden vengeance burned.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Disrobe and yield or fall in blood, <br>this blade rejects all pleas: <br>I leave a maid a looping asp<br>that will not lift her knees.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I'll shed my robe and hood that am<br>no maid to fear such thing; <br>to chill your blazing blood I bear<br>a maiden's righteous sting.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>III</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A lethal hiss cut short his grunts, <br>bestial snarl hardened to stone, <br>as ramping venom drained him faint<br>and pale as weathered bone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Up from a clump of blasted weeds<br>there rose in mid-day light<br>from cutthroat's ribs and skull, pecked clean, <br>a flock of swollen kite.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A field away a sheath of scales, <br>resembling robe and hood, <br>curled round a broken garland<br>redeemed in Blackburn Wood.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">*(Lamia in Greek myth is a serpent with the head<br> and breasts of a woman.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+F+Dougherty">William F Dougherty</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=560767" data-title="Lamia in Blackburn Wood de William F Dougherty" data-description="[In the form of traditional folk ballad.] I In Blackburn Wood a maid betrothed that rode a garlanded mare by cutthroat maimed for maidenhood writhed in crimson there. Dislimbed beneath a shrieking sun and left for carrion-kite, the savaged mai..."></div> </div> </div>

solid border dashed border dotted border double border groove border ridge border inset border outset border no border blue green red purple cyan gold silver black