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A thousand wings, by turns, blow back the hair; And thrice they twitched the diamond in her ear: Thrice she looked back, and thrice the foe drew near. Just in that instant, anxious Ariel .sought The close recesses of the Virgin's thought: As, on the nosegay...

The World's Great Masterpieces: History, Biography, Science, Philosophy ... - Page 9076
by Harry Thurston Peck - 1901
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The Pleasure of Poetry: Reading and Enjoying British Poetry from Donne to Burns

Nicolas H. Nelson - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 267 pages

...close recesses of the virgin's thought; As on the nosegay in her breast reclined, He watched th'ideas rising in her mind, Sudden he viewed, in spite of...lurking at her heart. Amazed, confused, he found his pow'r expired, Resigned to fate, and with a sigh retired. (3: 139-146) Ariel finds he is powerless...

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