" The Beggar Maid http://home.att.net/%7ETennysonPoetry/tbm.htm", st. 2 (1842)
“Unclasps her warmed jewels one by one;
Loosens her fragrant bodice; by degrees
Her rich attire creeps rustling to her knees.”
Stanza 26
Poems (1820), The Eve of St. Agnes
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“The blond tresses loosened on her neck.”
Le bionde treccie sopra il collo sciolte.
Canzone 127, line 77
Il Canzoniere (c. 1351–1353), To Laura in Life
Wood, Christopher. "Terrible Hard", Says Alice. London: Constable. 1970. (chapter 9)
“As when a tigress hears the noise of the hunters, she bristles into her stripes and shakes off the sloth of sleep; athirst for battle she loosens her jaws and flexes her claws, then rushes upon the troop and carries in her mouth a breathing man, food for her bloody young.”
Qualis ubi audito venantum murmure tigris
horruit in maculas somnosque excussit inertes,
bella cupit laxatque genas et temperat ungues,
mox ruit in turmas natisque alimenta cruentis
spirantem fert ore virum.
Source: Thebaid, Book II, Line 128
“Black was this queen as jet, yet on her eyes
Sweet loveliness in black attired lies.”
Bruna e si, ma il bruno il bel non toglie.
Canto XII, stanza 21 (tr. Fairfax)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)