Robert Browning's Poetical Works: Dramatic romances. Christmas-eve and Easter-daySmith, Elder, & Company, 1888 |
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... O'er his work the boy's curls fell . But ever , at each period , He stopped and sang , " Praise God ! " Then back again his curls he threw , And cheerful turned to work anew . Said Blaise , the listening monk , " Well done ; " I doubt ...
... O'er his work the boy's curls fell . But ever , at each period , He stopped and sang , " Praise God ! " Then back again his curls he threw , And cheerful turned to work anew . Said Blaise , the listening monk , " Well done ; " I doubt ...
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... o'er the trade he bent , And ever lived on earth content . ( He did God's will ; to him , all one If on the earth or in the sun . ) God said , " A praise is in mine ear ; " There is no doubt in it , no fear : " So sing old worlds , and ...
... o'er the trade he bent , And ever lived on earth content . ( He did God's will ; to him , all one If on the earth or in the sun . ) God said , " A praise is in mine ear ; " There is no doubt in it , no fear : " So sing old worlds , and ...
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... O'er the broken shrubs , " Twixt the stems and stubs , With a still , composed , strong mind , Nor a care for the world behind- XIX . Swifter and still more swift , As the crowding peace Doth to joy increase In the wide blind eyes ...
... O'er the broken shrubs , " Twixt the stems and stubs , With a still , composed , strong mind , Nor a care for the world behind- XIX . Swifter and still more swift , As the crowding peace Doth to joy increase In the wide blind eyes ...
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... o'er the fence " Of the pit , on no greater pretence " Than to get back the bonnet he dropped , " Lest his pay for a week should be stopped . " So , wiser I judged it to make " One trial what ' death for my sake ' 66 Really meant ...
... o'er the fence " Of the pit , on no greater pretence " Than to get back the bonnet he dropped , " Lest his pay for a week should be stopped . " So , wiser I judged it to make " One trial what ' death for my sake ' 66 Really meant ...
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... when that peril ceased at night , The sky broke out in red dismay With signal fires ; well , there I lay Close covered o'er in my recess , Up to the neck in ferns and cress , Thinking on Metternich our friend , And Charles's miserable end.
... when that peril ceased at night , The sky broke out in red dismay With signal fires ; well , there I lay Close covered o'er in my recess , Up to the neck in ferns and cress , Thinking on Metternich our friend , And Charles's miserable end.
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Términos y frases comunes
art thou beneath blood blurrs brain breast breath brow caught cheek Christ Clement Marot contrive creatures crossed and crossed dark Dark Tower death doubt Duchess Duke earth eyes face faith feast fire flesh flintstone foot Fortù furled sail Gipsy Gismond give glad glove God's gold grew guilders hair hand head heard heart heaven Jacynth kiss knew lady lady's laugh leave life's lips live looked man's mind never night o'er once Past we glide PIANO DI SORRENTO Piper plain Porphyria praise pride prove rats reach ride rose round sake Scirocco seemed shut sight singing singing cave sleep smile soul stand stood sure sure as fate tell thee theorbo there's thine thou art thought thro Tizian Triest truth turned Twixt voice Waring Weser wings wonder word
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Página 4 - 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 108 - 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 109 - Beside," quoth the Mayor with a knowing wink, "Our business was done at the river's brink; We saw with our eyes the vermin sink, And...
Página 155 - ... censer. Leave we the unlettered plain its herd and crop; Seek we sepulture On a tall mountain, citied to the top, Crowded with culture! All the peaks soar, but one the rest excels; Clouds overcome it; No! yonder sparkle is the citadel's Circling its summit.
Página 8 - That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call That piece a wonder, now: Fra' Pandolf s hands Worked busily a day, and there she stands. Will't please you sit and look at her? I said "Fra
Página 3 - My plans That soar, to earth may fall, Let once my army-leader Lannes Waver at yonder wall...
Página 102 - They fought the dogs, and killed the cats, And bit the babies in the cradles, And ate the cheeses out of the vats. And licked the soup from the cook's 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:
Página 195 - As when a sick man very near to death Seems dead indeed, and feels begin and end The tears and takes the farewell of each friend, And hears one bid the other go, draw breath Freelier outside, ("since all is o'er," he saith, "And the blow fallen no grieving can amend;") II.
Página 173 - Thou art the Judge. We are bruised thus. But, the Judgment over, join sides with us! Thine too is the cause ! and not more thine Than ours, is the work of these dogs and swine, Whose life laughs through and spits at their creed ! Who maintain Thee in word, and defy Thee in deed!
Página 7 - I go in the rain, and, more than needs, A rope cuts both my wrists behind ; And I think, by the feel, my forehead bleeds, For they fling, whoever has a mind, Stones at me for my year's misdeeds. Thus I entered, and thus I go ! In triumphs, people have dropped down dead. " Paid by the world, what dost thou owe Me ?" — God might question ; now instead, "Tis God shall repay : I am safer so.