Selected Poems of Robert BrowningClark & Maynard, 1887 - 54 páginas |
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... things the most alien to the ordinary conceptions of poetry , and the usual pref- erences for it . Compare , altogether apart from the worth and workmanship , one of Lord Tennyson's with one of Mr. Brown- ing's best lyrics . The ...
... things the most alien to the ordinary conceptions of poetry , and the usual pref- erences for it . Compare , altogether apart from the worth and workmanship , one of Lord Tennyson's with one of Mr. Brown- ing's best lyrics . The ...
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... things Are ours , nor soul helps flesh more , now , than flesh helps soul ! " Therefore I summon age To grant youth's heritage , 52. Dole . - Share , that which is dealt . Liie's struggle having so far reached its term : Thence 16 ...
... things Are ours , nor soul helps flesh more , now , than flesh helps soul ! " Therefore I summon age To grant youth's heritage , 52. Dole . - Share , that which is dealt . Liie's struggle having so far reached its term : Thence 16 ...
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... surmise , They , this thing , and I , that : whom shall my soul believe ? 124 , 125. - Was I whom the world arraigned , or were they whom my sou disdained , right ? Not on the vulgar mass Called " work , " 18 BROWNING'S POEMS .
... surmise , They , this thing , and I , that : whom shall my soul believe ? 124 , 125. - Was I whom the world arraigned , or were they whom my sou disdained , right ? Not on the vulgar mass Called " work , " 18 BROWNING'S POEMS .
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... Things done , that took the eye and had the price ; 135 O'er which , from level stand , The low world laid its hand , Found straightway to its mind , could value in a trice : But all , the world's coarse thumb And finger failed to plumb ...
... Things done , that took the eye and had the price ; 135 O'er which , from level stand , The low world laid its hand , Found straightway to its mind , could value in a trice : But all , the world's coarse thumb And finger failed to plumb ...
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... things in order grim Grow out , in graver mood , obey the sterner stress ? Look not thou down but up ! 175 To uses of a cup , The festal board , lamp's flash , and trumpet's peal , The new wine's foaming flow , The Master's lips aglow ...
... things in order grim Grow out , in graver mood , obey the sterner stress ? Look not thou down but up ! 175 To uses of a cup , The festal board , lamp's flash , and trumpet's peal , The new wine's foaming flow , The Master's lips aglow ...
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Página 53 - For calling up that spot of joy. She had A heart how shall I say? too soon made glad, Too easily impressed; she liked whate'er She looked on, and her looks went everywhere. Sir, 'twas all one!
Página 21 - I crossed a moor, with a name of its own And a certain use in the world no doubt, Yet a hand's-breadth of it shines alone 'Mid the blank miles round about...
Página 26 - All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good shall exist; Not its semblance, but itself; no beauty, nor good, nor power "Whose voice has gone forth, but each survives for the melodist When eternity affirms the conception of an hour. The high that proved too high, the heroic for earth too hard...
Página 38 - And his low head and crest, just one sharp ear bent back For my voice, and the other pricked out on his track; And one eye's black intelligence, — ever that glance O'er its white edge at me, his own master, askance. And the thick heavy spume-flakes which aye and anon His fierce lips shook upwards in galloping on. By Hasselt, Dirck groaned; and cried Joris, "Stay spur! Your Roos galloped bravely, the fault's not in her, We'll remember at Aix...
Página 14 - GROW old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made: Our times are in his hand Who saith, "A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!
Página 25 - There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound; What was good shall be good, with, for evil, so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round.
Página 39 - 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 !' ' 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 12 - 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 38 - 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 13 - 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!