Selections from [his] Poetical WorksSmith, Elder & Company, 1874 |
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... smile ; And , mind you , his mother all the while Chilled in the rear , like a wind to Nor'ward ; And up , like a weary yawn , with its pullies Went , in a shriek , the rusty portcullis ; And , like a glad sky the north - wind sullies ...
... smile ; And , mind you , his mother all the while Chilled in the rear , like a wind to Nor'ward ; And up , like a weary yawn , with its pullies Went , in a shriek , the rusty portcullis ; And , like a glad sky the north - wind sullies ...
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... smiling as at first went she . VIII . She was active , stirring , all fire- Could not rest , could not tire- To a stone she might have given life ! ( I myself loved once , in my day ) -For a shepherd's , miner's , huntsman's wife , ( I ...
... smiling as at first went she . VIII . She was active , stirring , all fire- Could not rest , could not tire- To a stone she might have given life ! ( I myself loved once , in my day ) -For a shepherd's , miner's , huntsman's wife , ( I ...
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... smile that partook of the awful , Turned her over to his yellow mother To learn what was decorous and lawful ; And the mother smelt blood with a cat - like instinct , As her cheek quick whitened thro ' all its quince - tinct . Oh , but ...
... smile that partook of the awful , Turned her over to his yellow mother To learn what was decorous and lawful ; And the mother smelt blood with a cat - like instinct , As her cheek quick whitened thro ' all its quince - tinct . Oh , but ...
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... yonder wall , — ” Out ' twixt the battery smokes there flew A rider , bound on bound Full - galloping ; nor bridle drew Until he reached the mound . III . Then off there flung in smiling joy , 67 INCIDENT OF THE FRENCH CAMP.
... yonder wall , — ” Out ' twixt the battery smokes there flew A rider , bound on bound Full - galloping ; nor bridle drew Until he reached the mound . III . Then off there flung in smiling joy , 67 INCIDENT OF THE FRENCH CAMP.
Términos y frases comunes
beauty bird blood breast breath brow Caliban cheek Clement Marot CLEON dare Dark Tower dead death drop Duke earth eyes face Fano feast fire flesh flowers furled Gismond give God's gold grew grey hair hand hath hauberk head heart heaven hope Italy Jacynth King kiss lady LAST DUCHESS laugh leave life's lips live look Louis-d'or man's mind Moldavia mouth neath never night o'er once paint pass past perfect PIPPA PASSES play Pornic praise pride rapture rest ride ROBERT BROWNING rose round Saint Saul Setebos shut side sings sleep smile song soul speak star stopped sure sweet thee there's thing thou thought thro touch travertine truth turn twixt Ulpian VIII watch whole wonder word youth Zeus
Pasajes populares
Página 341 - Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped; All I could never be, All, men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped.
Página 336 - 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 335 - 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 246 - 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, The passion that left the ground to lose itself in the sky, Are music sent up to God by the lover and the bard; Enough that He heard it once: we shall hear it by and by.
Página 244 - 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, hut a star.
Página 69 - Shakespeare was of us, Milton was for us, Burns, Shelley, were with us, — they watch from their graves! He alone breaks from the van and the freemen, — He alone sinks to the rear and the slaves! We shall march prospering, — not thro...
Página 69 - THE LOST LEADER. JUST for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat — Found the one gift of which fortune bereft us, Lost all the others, she lets us devote; They, with the gold to give, doled him out silver...
Página 191 - Noon strikes, — here sweeps the procession! our Lady borne smiling and smart With a pink gauze gown all spangles, and seven swords stuck in her heart!
Página 332 - Would I suffer for him that I love? So wouldst thou — so wilt thou ! So shall crown thee the topmost, ineffablest, uttermost crown — And thy love fill infinitude wholly, nor leave up nor down One spot for the creature to stand in!
Página 273 - Long he lived nameless: how should spring take note Winter would follow? Till lo, the little touch, and youth was gone! Cramped and diminished, Moaned he, "New measures, other feet anon! "My dance is finished?