Selections from the Poetical Works of Robert BrowningChapman and Hall, 1863 - 411 páginas |
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... doubt , Whene'er I passed her ; but who passed without Much the same smile ? This grew ; I gave commands ; Then all smiles stopped together . There she stands As if alive . Will't please you rise ? We'll meet The company below , then ...
... doubt , Whene'er I passed her ; but who passed without Much the same smile ? This grew ; I gave commands ; Then all smiles stopped together . There she stands As if alive . Will't please you rise ? We'll meet The company below , then ...
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... doubt of the event : God took that on him - I was bid Watch Gismond for my part : I did . XV . Did I not watch him while he let His armourer just brace his greaves , Rivet his hauberk , on the fret The while ! His foot . . my memory ...
... doubt of the event : God took that on him - I was bid Watch Gismond for my part : I did . XV . Did I not watch him while he let His armourer just brace his greaves , Rivet his hauberk , on the fret The while ! His foot . . my memory ...
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... oak - galls , I doubt : What's the Latin name for " parsley " ? What's the Greek name for Swine's Snout ? III . Whew ! We'll have our platter burnished , Incident of the French Camp . 13 SOLILOQUY OF THE SPANISH CLOISTER.
... oak - galls , I doubt : What's the Latin name for " parsley " ? What's the Greek name for Swine's Snout ? III . Whew ! We'll have our platter burnished , Incident of the French Camp . 13 SOLILOQUY OF THE SPANISH CLOISTER.
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... doubt Entered her heart , -then , passing out , " She could not speak for others - who Had other thoughts ; herself she knew : " And so she brought me drink and food . After four days , the scouts pursued Another path : at last arrived ...
... doubt Entered her heart , -then , passing out , " She could not speak for others - who Had other thoughts ; herself she knew : " And so she brought me drink and food . After four days , the scouts pursued Another path : at last arrived ...
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... doubt ; what harm If I sat on that door - side bench , And , while her spindle made a trench Fantastically in the dust , Inquired of all her fortunes - just Her children's ages and their names , And what may be the husband's aims For ...
... doubt ; what harm If I sat on that door - side bench , And , while her spindle made a trench Fantastically in the dust , Inquired of all her fortunes - just Her children's ages and their names , And what may be the husband's aims For ...
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Página 30 - So we were left galloping, Joris and I, Past Looz and past Tongres, no cloud in the sky; The broad sun above laughed a pitiless laugh, 'Neath our feet broke the brittle, bright stubble like chaff; Till over by Dalhem a dome-spire sprang white, And "Gallop," gasped Joris, "for Aix is in sight!
Página 29 - Good speed!" cried the watch as the gate-bolts undrew, "Speed!" echoed the wall to us galloping through. Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest, And into the midnight we galloped abreast.
Página 14 - Then off there flung in smiling joy, And held himself erect By just his horse's mane, a boy: You hardly could suspect — (So tight he kept his lips compressed, Scarce any blood came through) You looked twice ere you saw his breast Was all but shot in two. "Well," cried he, "Emperor, by God's grace We've got you Ratisbon!
Página 19 - And licked the soup from the cooks' own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats, By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats. At last the people in a body To the Town Hall came flocking: "Tis clear...
Página 234 - Sixteen years old when she died ! Perhaps she had scarcely heard my name ; It was not her time to love ; beside, Her life had many a hope and aim, Duties enough and little...
Página 26 - I'm bereft Of all the pleasant sights they see, Which the Piper also promised me. For he led us, he said, to a joyous land, Joining the town and just at hand, Where waters gushed and fruit-trees grew And flowers put forth a fairer hue, And everything was strange and new...
Página 231 - Where a multitude of men breathed joy and woe Long ago; Lust of glory pricked their hearts up, dread of shame Struck them tame; And that glory and that shame alike, the gold Bought and sold.
Página 23 - You should have heard the Hamelin people Ringing the bells till they rocked the steeple. " Go," cried the Mayor, " and get long poles, Poke out the nests and block up the holes ! Consult with carpenters and builders, And leave in our town not even a trace Of the rats! " — when suddenly, up the face Of the Piper perked in the market-place, W>th a, " First, if you please, my thousand guilders !
Página 104 - There is an inmost centre in us all, Where truth abides in fulness ; and around Wall upon wall, the gross flesh hems it in, This perfect, clear perception — which is truth ; A baffling and perverting carnal mesh Blinds it, and makes all error : and, " to know" Rather consists in opening out a way Whence the imprisoned splendour may escape, Than in effecting entry for a light Supposed to be without.
Página 17 - There's a great text in Galatians, Once you trip on it, entails Twenty-nine distinct damnations, One sure, if another fails; If I trip him just a-dying, Sure of heaven as sure can be, Spin him round and send him flying Off to hell, a Manichee?