 | Robert Browning - 1835 - 234 páginas
...when once unroll'd ; Or shredded perfume, like a cloud From closet long to quiet vow'd, With moth'd and dropping arras hung, Mouldering her lute and books...on such pile shall die My lovely fancies with fair perish 'd things, Themselves fair and forgotten ; yes, forgotten, Or why abjure them ? So I made this... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1874 - 372 páginas
...their island gain. II. And strew faint sweetness from some old Egyptian's fine worm-eaten shroud Which breaks to dust when once unrolled ; Or shredded perfume,...books among, As when a queen, long dead, was young. THROUGH THE METIDJA TO ABD-EL-KADR. 1842. As I ride, as I ride, With a full heart for my guide, So... | |
 | 1883 - 378 páginas
...their island-gain. And strew faint sweetness from some old Egyptian's fine worm-eaten shroud Which breaks to dust when once unrolled ; Or shredded perfume,...books among, As when a queen, long dead, was young. WARING What 's become of Waring Since he gave us all the slip, Chose land-travel or seafaring, Boots... | |
 | English poets - 1883 - 364 páginas
...vast and howling main, To treasure half their island-gain. And strew faint sweetness from some old Or shredded perfume, like a cloud From closet long...books among, As when a queen, long dead, was young. WARING What's become of Waring Since he gave us all the slip, Chose land-travel or seafaring, Boots... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1884 - 308 páginas
...their island gain. II And strew faint sweetness from some old Egyptian's fine worm-eaten shroud Which breaks to dust when once unrolled ; Or shredded perfume,...books among, As when a queen, long dead, was young. THROUGH THE METIDJA TO ABD-EL-KADR. I As I ride, as I ride, With a full heart for my guide, So its... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1884 - 308 páginas
...their island gain. II And strew faint sweetness from some old Egyptian's fine worm-eaten shroud Which breaks to dust when once unrolled ; Or shredded perfume,...books among, As when a queen, long dead, was young. THROUGH THE METIDJA TO ABD-EL-KADR. 1842. i As I ride, as I ride, With a full heart for my guide, So... | |
 | 1885 - 686 páginas
...their island gain. And strew faint sweetness from some old Egyptian's fine worm-eaten shroud Which breaks to dust when once unrolled; Or shredded perfume,...books among, As when a queen, long dead, was young. THE LOST MISTRESS. ALL'S over, then : does truth sound bitter As one at first believes? Hark, 'tis... | |
 | Thomas Young Crowell - 1885 - 702 páginas
...their island gain. And strew faint sweetness from some old Egyptian's fine worm-eaten shroud Which breaks to dust when once unrolled; Or shredded perfume,...like a cloud From closet long to quiet vowed, With molded and dropping arras bung, Mouldering her lute and books among, As when a queen, long dead, was... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1886 - 344 páginas
...their island gain. п. And strew faint sweetness from some old Egyptian's fine worm-eaten shroud Which breaks to dust when once unrolled ; Or shredded perfume,...like a cloud From closet long to quiet vowed, With muthed and dropping arras hung. Mouldering her lute and books among, As when a queen, long dead, was... | |
 | Harry Butler SIMPSON - 1888 - 222 páginas
...inexpressible in mere words as — " The faint sweetness from some old Egyptian's fine worm-eaten shroud, Which breaks to dust when once unrolled, Or shredded perfume like a cloud From closet long to quiet vowed." That the classical ideal was never historically realized, and that human nature is much the same, whether... | |
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... with dull nard an Indian wipes From out her hair : such balsam falls Down sea-side mountain pedestals, From tree-tops where tired winds are fain, Spent with the vast and howling main, To treasure half their island-gain. And strew faint sweetness from... 
