{"id":64,"date":"2021-06-03T09:27:37","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T13:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/victoriananthology\/?post_type=chapter&p=64"},"modified":"2022-02-17T09:22:32","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T14:22:32","slug":"lady-lilith","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/victoriananthology\/chapter\/lady-lilith\/","title":{"raw":"\"Lady Lilith\"","rendered":"“Lady Lilith”"},"content":{"raw":"

By Dante Gabriel Rossetti<\/h2>\r\n(For a Picture)\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_101\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"257\"]\"Woman<\/a> Lady Lilith<\/a> by Dante Gabriel Rossetti,
Public Domain, Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/a>[\/caption]\r\nOf Adam's first wife, Lilith, it is told\r\n(The witch he loved before the gift of Eve,)\r\nThat, ere the snake's, her sweet tongue could deceive,\r\nAnd her enchanted hair was the first gold.\r\nAnd still she sits, young while the earth is old,\r\nAnd, subtly of herself contemplative\r\nDraws men to watch the bright net she can weave,\r\nTill heart and body and life are in its hold.\r\n\r\nThe rose and poppy are her flowers, for where\r\nIs he not found, O Lilith, whom shed scent\r\nAnd soft-shed kisses and soft sleep shall snare ?\r\nLo ! as that youth's eyes burned at thine, so went\r\nThy spell through him, and left his straight neck bent,\r\nAnd round his heart one strangling golden hair.","rendered":"

By Dante Gabriel Rossetti<\/h2>\n

(For a Picture)<\/p>\n

\"Woman<\/a>
Lady Lilith<\/a> by Dante Gabriel Rossetti,
Public Domain, Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Of Adam’s first wife, Lilith, it is told
\n(The witch he loved before the gift of Eve,)
\nThat, ere the snake’s, her sweet tongue could deceive,
\nAnd her enchanted hair was the first gold.
\nAnd still she sits, young while the earth is old,
\nAnd, subtly of herself contemplative
\nDraws men to watch the bright net she can weave,
\nTill heart and body and life are in its hold.<\/p>\n

The rose and poppy are her flowers, for where
\nIs he not found, O Lilith, whom shed scent
\nAnd soft-shed kisses and soft sleep shall snare ?
\nLo ! as that youth’s eyes burned at thine, so went
\nThy spell through him, and left his straight neck bent,
\nAnd round his heart one strangling golden hair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"menu_order":10,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":["dante-gabriel-rossetti"],"pb_section_license":"public-domain"},"chapter-type":[48],"contributor":[67],"license":[50],"class_list":["post-64","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","chapter-type-numberless","contributor-dante-gabriel-rossetti","license-public-domain"],"part":3,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/victoriananthology\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/victoriananthology\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/victoriananthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/victoriananthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/251"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/victoriananthology\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/victoriananthology\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/64\/revisions\/103"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/victoriananthology\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/3"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/victoriananthology\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/64\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/victoriananthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/victoriananthology\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/victoriananthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/victoriananthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}