The Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning ..., Volumen4Houghton, Mifflin, 1887 |
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... dead there , it has left a ghost . Admire we , how from heart to brain ( Though to say so strike the doctors dumb ) One instinct rises and falls again , Restoring the equilibrium . And how when the Critic had done his best , And the ...
... dead there , it has left a ghost . Admire we , how from heart to brain ( Though to say so strike the doctors dumb ) One instinct rises and falls again , Restoring the equilibrium . And how when the Critic had done his best , And the ...
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... dead ' ? Yes , but for me my name called , As a conscript's lot from the lap's black yawn , He has dipt into on a battle - dawn : Bid out of life by a nod , a glance , Stumbling , mute - mazed , at nature's chance , - With a rapid ...
... dead ' ? Yes , but for me my name called , As a conscript's lot from the lap's black yawn , He has dipt into on a battle - dawn : Bid out of life by a nod , a glance , Stumbling , mute - mazed , at nature's chance , - With a rapid ...
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... Dead here , this minute should I lie Faithful or faithless ? " - Note that I Inclined thus ever ! - little prone For instance , when I lay alone In childhood , to go calm to sleep And leave a closet where might keep His watch perdue ...
... Dead here , this minute should I lie Faithful or faithless ? " - Note that I Inclined thus ever ! - little prone For instance , when I lay alone In childhood , to go calm to sleep And leave a closet where might keep His watch perdue ...
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... dead ? Where stood they , small and great ? The sentence from the opened book ? " So , by degrees , the blood forsook My heart , and let it beat afresh ; I knew I should break through the mesh Of horror , and breathe presently : When ...
... dead ? Where stood they , small and great ? The sentence from the opened book ? " So , by degrees , the blood forsook My heart , and let it beat afresh ; I knew I should break through the mesh Of horror , and breathe presently : When ...
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... With ghastly smooth life , dead at heart , Tame in earth's paddock as her prize . Thank God , she still each method tries To catch me , who may yet escape , She knows , the fiend in angel's shape ! Thank EASTER - DAY 55.
... With ghastly smooth life , dead at heart , Tame in earth's paddock as her prize . Thank God , she still each method tries To catch me , who may yet escape , She knows , the fiend in angel's shape ! Thank EASTER - DAY 55.
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Página 206 - 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 88 - Just when we are safest, there's a sunset-touch, A fancy from a flower-bell, some one's death, A chorus-ending from Euripides, — And that's enough for fifty hopes and fears As old and new at once as nature's self, To rap and knock and enter in our soul, Take hands and dance there, a fantastic ring, Round the ancient idol, on his base again, — The grand Perhaps!
Página 174 - But here is the finger of God, a flash of the will that can, Existent behind all laws, that made them and, lo, they are! And I know not if, save in this, such gift be allowed to man, That out of three sounds he frame, not a fourth sound, but a star. Consider it well: each tone of our scale in itself is naught; It is everywhere in the world — loud, soft, and all is said: Give it to me to use! I mix it with two in my thought: And, there! Ye have heard and seen: consider and bow the head!
Página 176 - For thence, — a paradox Which comforts while it mocks, — Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me: A brute I might have been, but would not sink i
Página 180 - He fixed thee mid this dance Of plastic circumstance, This Present, thou, forsooth, wouldst fain arrest : Machinery just meant To give thy soul its bent, Try thee and turn thee forth, sufficiently impressed.
Página 83 - Evil and brief hath been my pilgrimage. All lapis, all, sons! Else I give the Pope My villas: will ye ever eat my heart? Ever your eyes were as a lizard's quick, They glitter like your mother's for my soul...
Página 176 - Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!
Página 177 - Spite of this flesh to-day I strove, made head, gained ground upon the whole ! " As the bird wings and sings, Let us cry, "All good things Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now than flesh helps soul...
Página 179 - Not on the vulgar mass Called "work," must sentence pass, Things done, that took the eye and had the price; O'er which, from level stand, The low world laid its hand, Found straightway to its mind, could value in a trice...
Página 180 - Ay, note that Potter's wheel, That metaphor! and feel, Why time spins fast, why passive lies our clay, — Thou, to whom fools propound, When the wine makes its round, "Since life fleets, all is change; the Past gone, seize to-day!