Poems: A blot in the 'scutcheonTicknor, Reed and Fields, 1850 |
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... dripping blossoms , no fire - tinted drops On each live spray , no vapour steaming up , And no expressless glory in the east ? When I am by you , to be ever by you , When I have won you and may worship you , 20 A BLOT IN THE ' SCUTCHEON .
... dripping blossoms , no fire - tinted drops On each live spray , no vapour steaming up , And no expressless glory in the east ? When I am by you , to be ever by you , When I have won you and may worship you , 20 A BLOT IN THE ' SCUTCHEON .
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... live thro ' And say , " ' tis over ? " Is our meeting over ? Have I received in presence of them all The partner of my guilty love , -with brow Trying to seem a maiden's brow - with lips Which make believe that when they strive to form ...
... live thro ' And say , " ' tis over ? " Is our meeting over ? Have I received in presence of them all The partner of my guilty love , -with brow Trying to seem a maiden's brow - with lips Which make believe that when they strive to form ...
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... live and die her own , Who knew ? I spoke - Oh , Mildred , feel you not That now , while I remember every glance Of yours , each word of yours , with power to test And weigh them in the diamond scales of Pride , Resolved the treasure of ...
... live and die her own , Who knew ? I spoke - Oh , Mildred , feel you not That now , while I remember every glance Of yours , each word of yours , with power to test And weigh them in the diamond scales of Pride , Resolved the treasure of ...
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... , until those slender threads compose A web that shrouds her daily life of hopes And fears and fancies , all her life , from yours- So close you live and yet so far apart ! And must I rend this web , tear up , 34 A BLOT IN THE ' SCUTCHEON .
... , until those slender threads compose A web that shrouds her daily life of hopes And fears and fancies , all her life , from yours- So close you live and yet so far apart ! And must I rend this web , tear up , 34 A BLOT IN THE ' SCUTCHEON .
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... lives between you and detraction - lives " To be laid down if a rude voice , rash eye , 66 Rough hand should violate the sacred ring " Their worship throws about you , then indeed , " Who'll stand up for you stout as I ? " If so We said ...
... lives between you and detraction - lives " To be laid down if a rude voice , rash eye , 66 Rough hand should violate the sacred ring " Their worship throws about you , then indeed , " Who'll stand up for you stout as I ? " If so We said ...
Términos y frases comunes
Anael arms Austin bezants blood Brac Braccio breast breath brow cheek Chiappino dare dead deed Djabal DOMIZIA doubt dream Druses Duke Enter eyes face Faenza faith Florence Florentines Gerard give God's gold Guards Guen Guendolen guilders Hakeem hand head hear heard heart Heaven hold Jacynth keep Khalil knew Lady laugh leave Lebanon lips live look Lord Tresham Loys Lucca Luit Luitolfo Luria Masaccio Mertoun Mildred neath never night Nuncio o'er Ogni once past Pisa praise Prefect pride Provost Puccio round seemed shame silent soul speak spoke stand stood sure sure as fate sword tell thee there's Theseus thine Thorold thou art thought thro Tiburzio Tresh tribe trust truth turn twas Venice voice What's word wrong
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Página 320 - Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood up in the stirrup, leaned, patted his ear, Called my Roland his pet-name, my horse without peer; Clapped my hands, laughed and sang, any noise, bad or good, Till at length into Aix Roland galloped and stood. And all I remember is, friends flocking round As I...
Página 312 - 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 319 - So we were left galloping, Joris and I, Past Looz and past Tongres, no cloud in the sky; The broad sun above laughed a pitiless laugh, 'Neath our feet broke the brittle, bright stubble like chaff; Till over by Dalhem a dome-spire sprang white, And "Gallop," gasped Joris, "for Aix is in sight!
Página 346 - Old Gandolf with his paltry onion-stone, Put me where I may look at him! True peach, Rosy and flawless: how I earned the prize! Draw close: that conflagration of my church — What then? So much was saved if aught were missed!
Página 318 - ... other; we kept the great pace Neck by neck, stride by stride, never changing our place; I turned in my saddle and made its girths tight, Then shortened each stirrup, and set the pique right, Rebuckled the cheek-strap, chained slacker the bit, Nor galloped less steadily Roland a whit.
Página 258 - Fra Pandolf" by design, for never read Strangers like you that pictured countenance, The depth and passion of its earnest glance, But to myself they turned (since none puts by The curtain I have drawn for you, but I...
Página 266 - 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.
Página 306 - HAMELIN Town's in Brunswick, By famous Hanover city; The river Weser, deep and wide, Washes its wall on the southern side; A pleasanter spot you never spied ; But, when begins my ditty, Almost five hundred years ago, To see the townsfolk suffer so From vermin, was a pity.
Página 310 - Smiling first a little smile, As if he knew what magic slept In his quiet pipe the while; Then, like a musical adept, To blow the pipe his lips he wrinkled, And green and blue his sharp eyes twinkled, Like a...
Página 319 - Aix" — for one heard the quick wheeze Of her chest, saw the stretched neck and staggering knees, And sunk tail, and horrible heave of the flank, As down on her haunches she shuddered and sank.