The Poetical Works of Robert Browning, Volumen1

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Smith, Elder, & Company, 1888

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Página 66 - That lustre ? Dante, pacer of the shore Where glutted hell disgorgeth filthiest gloom, Unbitten by its whirring sulphur-spume — Or whence the grieved and obscure waters slope Into a darkness quieted by hope ; Plucker of amaranths grown beneath God's eye In gracious twilights where his chosen lie...
Página 49 - The historical decoration was purposely of no more importance than a background requires ; and my stress lay on the incidents in the development of a soul : little else is worth study.
Página 13 - But in that middle stage when they were full Yet ere I had disposed them to my will; And then I shall show how these elements Produced my present state, and what it is. I am made up of an intensest life, Of a most clear idea of consciousness Of self...
Página 278 - ... you still Which, utterly incomprehensible, Is out of rivalry, which thus you can Love, tho' unloving all conceived by man — What need ! And of — none the minutest duct To that out-nature...
Página 7 - Yet its soft wings must sure have suffered change " From the thick darkness, sure its eyes are dim, " Its silver pinions must be cramped and numbed " With sleeping ages here ; it cannot leave me, " For it would seem, in light beside its kind, " Withered, tho
Página 38 - Yet though my wandering dreams have seen all shapes Of strange delight, oft have I stood by thee — Have I been keeping lonely watch with thee In the damp night by weeping Olivet, Or leaning on thy bosom, proudly less, Or dying with thee on the lonely cross, Or witnessing thy bursting from the tomb.
Página 30 - Resting upon her eyes and hair, such hair, As she awaits the snake on the wet beach By the dark rock and the white wave just breaking At her feet...
Página 217 - (low as some old Pythoness Conceding to a Lydian King's distress The cause of his long error — one mistake Of her past oracle) " Sordello, wake ! God has conceded two sights to a man — One, of men's whole work, time's completed plan, The other, of the minute's work, man's first Step to the plan's completeness...
Página 20 - I was vowed to liberty, Men were to be as gods, and earth as heaven. And I — ah ! what a life was mine to be, My whole soul rose to meet it.

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