The Poetical Works of Robert Browning: Pippa passes. King Victor and King Charles. The return of the Druses. A soul's tragedySmith, Elder, & Company, 1888 |
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2nd Girl 3rd Girl Anael Asolo Ayoob beside blood Bluphocks bride brother brow chamber Chambery Charles to D'ORMEA Chiappino counsel Count Tende crime crown D'Ormea dare dead death deed Djabal Druses ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Enter Eulalia eyes face faith father fear fool God's Guards hair Hakeem hand hate hear heart heaven Isle Jules Karshook keep Khalil King Charles KING VICTOR King's laugh least leave Lebanon live look Loys Luigi Luitolfo Lutwyche Maani mean Monsignor morning Mother Natalia never night nought Nuncio o'er Ogniben once Ottima pause Phene PIPPA passes Polyxena Possagno pray Prefect Prince Provost repent ROBERT BROWNING Sardinia Sebald shame silence singing smile soul Spain speak sure talk tell thee There's thing thou tribe truth Turin turn Venice voice wonder word wrong
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Página 13 - 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.
Página 58 - Age with its bane, so sure gone by, ( The gods so loved him while he dreamed] That, having lived thus long, there seemed No need the king should ever die.
Página 23 - the close wood screen Plunged and replunged his weapon at a venture, Feeling for guilty thee and me: then broke The thunder like a whole sea overhead — Seb.
Página 46 - Waiting my word to enter and make bright, Or flutter off and leave all blank as first. This body had no soul before, but slept Or stirred, was beauteous or ungainly, free From taint or foul with stain, as outward things...
Página 5 - DAY ! Faster and more fast, O'er night's brim, day boils at last; Boils, pure gold, o'er the cloud-cup's brim Where spurting and suppressed it lay ; For not a froth-flake touched the rim Of yonder gap in the solid gray Of the eastern cloud, an hour away ; But forth one wavelet, then another, curled, Till the whole sunrise, not to be suppressed, Rose, reddened, and its seething breast Flickered in bounds, grew gold, then overflowed the world.
Página 302 - PARLEYINGS WITH CERTAIN PEOPLE OF IMPORTANCE IN THEIR DAY. To wit: Bernard de Mandeville, Daniel Bartoli, Christopher Smart. George Bubb Dodington, Francis Furini, Gerard de Lairesse, and Charles Avison. Introduced by a Dialogue between Apollo and the Fates. Concluded by another between John Fust and his Friends.
Página 6 - Rose, reddened, and its seething breast Flickered in bounds, grew gold, then overflowed the world. Oh, Day, if I squander a wavelet of thee, A mite of my twelve hours' treasure, The least of thy gazes or glances. (Be they grants thou art bound to or gifts above measure) One of thy choices or one of thy chances, (Be they tasks God imposed thee or freaks at thy pleasure) — My Day, if I squander such labor or leisure, Then shame fall on Asoló, mischief on me!
Página 6 - For, Day, my holiday, if thou ill-usest Me, who am only Pippa, — old-year's sorrow, Cast off last night, will come again to-morrow : Whereas, if thou prove gentle, I shall borrow Sufficient strength of thee for new-year's sorrow. All other men and women that this earth Belongs to, who all days alike possess, Make general plenty cure particular dearth...
Página 13 - great event," should come to pass, Than that? Untwine me from the mass Of deeds which make up life, one deed i Power shall fall short in or exceed!
Página 38 - Half-softened by a halo's pearly gloom ; Down to the crisp imperious steel, so sure To cut its one confided thought clean out Of all the world. But marble ! — 'neath my tools More pliable than jelly — as it were Some clear primordial creature dug from...