The Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning ..., Volumen2Houghton, Mifflin, 1887 |
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... Duke's ! Or a sonnet with flowery marge , to the Reverend Don So - and - so Who is Dante , Boccaccio , Petrarca , Saint Jerome , and Cicero , " And moreover , " ( the sonnet goes rhyming , ) " the skirts of Saint Paul has reached ...
... Duke's ! Or a sonnet with flowery marge , to the Reverend Don So - and - so Who is Dante , Boccaccio , Petrarca , Saint Jerome , and Cicero , " And moreover , " ( the sonnet goes rhyming , ) " the skirts of Saint Paul has reached ...
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... Duke's guard brings up the rear , for the better preven- tion of scandals : Bang - whang - whang goes the drum , tootle - te - tootle the fife . Oh , a day in the city - square , there is no such pleasure in life ! A TOCCATA OF ...
... Duke's guard brings up the rear , for the better preven- tion of scandals : Bang - whang - whang goes the drum , tootle - te - tootle the fife . Oh , a day in the city - square , there is no such pleasure in life ! A TOCCATA OF ...
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... of him at Rennes , I think , beneath The Duke my father's roof ! He'd tell by the hour , With fixed white eyes beneath his swarthy brow , Plausiblest stories . Kha . The quaint attire ! Stories , say you 104 THE RETURN OF THE DRUSES.
... of him at Rennes , I think , beneath The Duke my father's roof ! He'd tell by the hour , With fixed white eyes beneath his swarthy brow , Plausiblest stories . Kha . The quaint attire ! Stories , say you 104 THE RETURN OF THE DRUSES.
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... Duke , And that son's wealth , the father's influence , too , And the young arm , we ' ll even say , my Loys , -The fear of losing or diverting these Into another channel , by gainsaying A novice too abruptly , could not influence The ...
... Duke , And that son's wealth , the father's influence , too , And the young arm , we ' ll even say , my Loys , -The fear of losing or diverting these Into another channel , by gainsaying A novice too abruptly , could not influence The ...
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... Duke's son , Bretagne's choicest stock , Loys of Dreux , God's sepulchre's first sword : This wilt thou spit on , this degrade , this trample To earth ? Loys . [ to AN . ] Who had foreseen that one day , Loys Would stake these gifts ...
... Duke's son , Bretagne's choicest stock , Loys of Dreux , God's sepulchre's first sword : This wilt thou spit on , this degrade , this trample To earth ? Loys . [ to AN . ] Who had foreseen that one day , Loys Would stake these gifts ...
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Página 231 - Her mantle laps Over my lady's wrist too much,' or 'Paint Must never hope to reproduce the faint Half-flush that dies along her throat:' such stuff Was courtesy, she thought, and cause enough 20 For calling up that spot of joy.
Página 2 - 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 2 - Life's night begins: let him never come back to us! There would be doubt, hesitation and pain, Forced praise on our part — the glimmer of twilight, Never glad confident morning again!
Página 22 - 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 cares, And now was quiet, now astir, Till God's hand beckoned unawares, — And the sweet white brow is all of her. m. Is it too late then, Evelyn Hope? What, your soul was pure and true, The good stars met in your horoscope, Made you of spirit, fire and dew...
Página 232 - E'en then would be some stooping; and I choose Never to stoop. Oh sir, she smiled, no 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. I repeat, The Count your master's known munificence Is ample warrant that no just pretence Of mine for dowry will be disallowed; Though his fair daughter's self, as I avowed At starting, is...
Página 229 - 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...
Página 44 - Hark! where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge Leans to the field and scatters on the clover Blossoms and dewdrops — at the bent spray's edge That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, Lest you should think he never could recapture The first fine careless rapture!
Página 55 - ... maintain at the height This perfection, — succeed with life's dayspring death's minute of night? Interpose at the difficult minute, snatch Saul the mistake, Saul the failure, the ruin he seems now — and bid him awake From the dream, the probation, the prelude, to find himself set Clear and safe in new light and new life, — a new harmony yet To be run, and continued, and ended — who knows? — or endure! The man taught enough by life's dream, of the rest to make sure: By the pain-throb,...
Página 283 - 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, With a, "First, if you please, my thousand guilders!
Página 334 - There they stood, ranged along the hill-sides — met To view the last of me, a living frame For one more picture ! in a sheet of flame I saw them and I knew them all. And yet Dauntless the slug-horn to my lips I set And blew. " Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came.