unravished

In another scene of reading Keats hails an urn as a "still unravished bride of quietness"

Sounding Romantic: The Sound of Sound 2008

I know that I, myself, would rather see a “still unravished bride of quietness, a foster child of silence a slow time” than an old jug any day.

Big Fish | Her Bad Mother 2006

I know that I, myself, would rather see a "still unravished bride of quietness, a foster child of silence a slow time" than an old jug any day.

Big Fish 2006

The urn as unravished bride proleptically contains its ravishment as a natural outcome in the ritual of weddings that parallels the consummation of questions asked.

Deforming Keat's 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' 2003

From addressing the urn in problematic human terms (unravished bride, fosterchild, sylvan historian), the speaker ends up acknowledging the urn as an artificial, but stimulating presence to human eyes ( "a friend to man").

Teaching Keats's 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' in New Zealand 2003

‘Thou still unravished bride of quietness,’ he quoted.

Lady Chatterley's Lover 2004

That horde, if it gets through to Eleusis, will not leave an ear standing, a sheep running, a jar unbroken, or a girl unravished.

The King Must Die Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1958

Thus its wealth remained long unravished, though its people began to dwindle.

The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

The spacious buildings lining the wide streets seemed unravished by time; the great band of marble that held the sea at bay was still unbreached; the parks and gardens, though long overgrown with weeds, were not yet jungles.

Tales of Ten Worlds Clarke, Arthur C. 1950

There was beauty in the sight, the soft eternal beauty of an unravished land, but over and above that was the suggestion that the travellers were fighting not merely against their kind but against the untrammelled forces of an all-powerful wilderness.

The Lost Valley James Morgan Walsh 1924