Lady of the Lake : Vivian, mistress of Merlin (a magician & seer, helper of King Arthur), she lived in a castle surrounded by a lake.
... names inherits, And learns what iron syllable Compels reluctant spirits. A perilous thorn on fire with bloom, A poppied spell, an empress snake, She rose, the alchemist of doom, The Lady of the Lake. Page 59 ...
... wreathed home; while Keats's ...Magic casements opening on the foam Of perilous seas in faery lands forlorn is a superb transfiguration of Wordsworth's idea about his "lady of the lake": Sole-sitting by the shores of old Romance. A certain similarity of language or imagery between one poet Page 47 and another is an extremely interesting ...
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