Robert Browning: Shorter Poems; Selected and Ed. with Introduction and NotesC. Scribner's sons, 1909 - 221 páginas |
Términos y frases comunes
Andrea Andrea del Sarto angel Asolo Athens beauty Bells and Pomegranates breath brow Browning's cheek cried dare death earth Elizabeth Barrett Browning English Epilogue Evelyn Hope eyes face famous fancy Florence galloped Ghent Ghent to Aix Gismond give glory glove God's gold Greek Guido Reni Hamelin hand head heart heaven Hervé Riel Home Thoughts Italian Italy lady Last Duchess laughed live look Lorge mind never o'er once painted painter Paracelsus Persia Pheidippides pipe Piper Pippa Pippa Passes play poem Poets of Croisic praise Rabbi ben Ezra Rafael rats ride Robert Browning rock round Saul singing smile song sonnets Sordello soul Sparta speak stand stood story thee there's thing thou Toccata of Galuppi's tune turn Venice wife word youth
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Página 208 - Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full ; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
Página 21 - twas all one! My favour at her breast, The dropping of the daylight in the West, The bough of cherries some officious fool Broke in the orchard for her, the white mule She rode with round the terrace all and each Would draw from her alike the approving speech, Or blush, at least.
Página 39 - Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat — Found the one gift of which fortune bereft us, Lost all the others, she lets us devote ; They, with the gold to give, doled him out silver, So much was theirs who so little allowed : How all our copper had gone for his service...
Página 32 - for Aix is in sight!" VIII. "How they'll greet us!" — and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone; And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news which alone could save Aix from her fate, With his nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-sockets
Página 20 - 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 11 - And in did come the strangest figure! His queer long coat from heel to head Was half of yellow and half of red, And he himself was tall and thin, With sharp blue eyes, each like a pin, And light loose hair, yet swarthy skin, No tuft on cheek nor beard on chin, But lips where smiles went out and in; There was no guessing his kith and kin: And nobody could enough admire The tall man and his quaint attire. Quoth one: "It's as my great-grandsire, Starting up at the Trump of Doom's tone, Had walked this...
Página 148 - FEAR death? — to feel the fog in my throat, The mist in my face, When the snows begin, and the blasts denote I am nearing the place, The power of the night, the press of the storm, The post of the foe; Where he stands, the Arch Fear in a visible form, Yet the strong man must go...
Página 16 - There was a rustling that seemed like a bustling Of merry crowds justling at pitching and hustling, Small feet were pattering, wooden shoes clattering, Little hands clapping and little tongues chattering, And like fowls in a farmyard when barley is scattering, Out came the children running : All the little boys and girls, With rosy cheeks and flaxen curls, And sparkling eyes and teeth like pearls, Tripping and skipping ran merrily after The wonderful music with shouting and laughter.
Página 208 - And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron, "Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.
Página 143 - Here, work enough to watch The Master work, and catch Hints of the proper craft, tricks of the tool's true play.