The Poetical Works of Robert Browning ...

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Macmillan and Company, 1894

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Página 222 - Evil and brief hath been my pilgrimage. All lapis, all, sons! Else I give the Pope My villas. Will ye ever eat my heart ? Ever your eyes were as a lizard's quick, They glitter like your mother's for my soul...
Página 231 - Just when we are safest, there's a sunset-touch, A fancy from a flower-bell, some one's death, A chorus-ending from Euripides, — And that's enough for fifty hopes and fears As old and new at once as nature's self, To rap and knock and enter in our soul, Take hands and dance there, a fantastic ring, Round the ancient idol, on his base again, — The grand Perhaps!
Página 15 - All service ranks the same with God : If now, as formerly he trod Paradise, his presence fills Our earth, each only as God wills Can work — God's puppets, best and worst, Are we ; there is no last nor first. Say not " a small event ! " Why " small " ? Costs it more pain that this, ye call A
Página 15 - All service ranks the same with God: If now, as formerly he trod Paradise, his presence fills Our earth, each only as God wills Can work— God's puppets, best and worst, Are we; there is no last nor first. Say not 'a small event!' Why 'small'? Costs it more pain that this, ye call A 'great event,
Página 219 - With tooth and nail to save my niche, ye know: — Old Gandolf cozened me, despite my care; Shrewd was that snatch from out the corner South He graced his carrion with, God curse the same! Yet still my niche is not so cramped but thence One sees the pulpit o...
Página 197 - To care about his asthma: it's the life!" But there my triumph's straw-fire flared and funked ; Their betters took their turn to see and say: The Prior and the learned pulled a...
Página 219 - That brave Frascati villa with its bath, So, let the blue lump poise between my knees, Like God the Father's globe on both his hands Ye worship in the Jesu Church so gay...
Página 227 - The common problem, yours, mine, every one's, Is — not to fancy what were fair in life Provided it could be, — but, finding first What may be, then find how to make it fair Up to our means...
Página 277 - It is so horrible, I dare at times imagine to my need Some future state revealed to us by Zeus, Unlimited in capability For joy, as this is in desire for joy...
Página 288 - This I say of me, but think of you, Love! This to you — yourself my moon of poets! Ah, but that's the world's side, there's the wonder, Thus they see you, praise you, think they know you! There, in turn I stand with them and praise you — Out of my own self, I dare to phrase it. But the...

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