Christmas-eve and Easter-day and Other PoemsLothrop, 1886 - 175 páginas |
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... David hinted it before he even realized it ; Dante , Shakespeare , Goethe — the poet of retribution , of reconciliation , and of unrest — have all celebrated it ; but theirs has been for the most part a song of longing , and of ...
... David hinted it before he even realized it ; Dante , Shakespeare , Goethe — the poet of retribution , of reconciliation , and of unrest — have all celebrated it ; but theirs has been for the most part a song of longing , and of ...
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... David . It describes one of those strange interviews between himself and Saul when the soul of the king was re- called from its wanderings by means of music . David finds an " agonized Saul , drear and stark , 22 THE THEORY OF ROBERT ...
... David . It describes one of those strange interviews between himself and Saul when the soul of the king was re- called from its wanderings by means of music . David finds an " agonized Saul , drear and stark , 22 THE THEORY OF ROBERT ...
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... David promises him such fame as the world has not known . " Each deed thou hast done Dies , revives , goes to work in the world- · Every flash of thy passion and prowess , long over , shall thrill Thy whole people , the countless , with ...
... David promises him such fame as the world has not known . " Each deed thou hast done Dies , revives , goes to work in the world- · Every flash of thy passion and prowess , long over , shall thrill Thy whole people , the countless , with ...
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... David . If that is anthropomorphism , the readers of the most modern of poets must make the most of it . The hope of permanent influence in society is not enough for the soul which longs to live consciously and forever . Browning ...
... David . If that is anthropomorphism , the readers of the most modern of poets must make the most of it . The hope of permanent influence in society is not enough for the soul which longs to live consciously and forever . Browning ...
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... David , thy servant ! " And no voice replied . At the first I saw naught but the blackness ; but soon I descried A something more black than the blackness - the vast , the upright Main prop which sustains the pavilion : and slow into ...
... David , thy servant ! " And no voice replied . At the first I saw naught but the blackness ; but soon I descried A something more black than the blackness - the vast , the upright Main prop which sustains the pavilion : and slow into ...
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Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day: A Poem (Classic Reprint) Robert Browning Sin vista previa disponible - 2017 |
Términos y frases comunes
Abt Vogler Æschylus architrave Baldachin beauty believe borage brave breccia Browning speaks Browning's chapel choice choose Christ Christian Christmas-Eve Coleoptera creature dare dark Dark Tower David death Dionysus divine dost doubt dread dream earth earthly Easter-Day edition eternal evil eyes face faith fire flesh Gallio gift give God's Göttingen Greek fire hand head heart heaven hope human human voice immortality jerboa Julius Cæsar Karshish King Saul Lazarus leave life's light live looked Lord man's mind moral nature night o'er once pain perfect poem poet Pope praise probation prove Queen Mab rest Robert Browning round saith Sallust Saul sense Snake-stone song soul soul's spirit spoke stand stood struggle thee thing thou art Thou hast truth turn twixt version omits Vespasian voice whence whole wonder word worship xvii
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Página 9 - 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 163 - But the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him.
Página 161 - And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD : and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
Página 116 - Oh, our manhood's prime vigour ! no spirit feels waste, Not a muscle is stopped in its playing, nor sinew unbraced. Oh, the wild joys of living! the leaping from rock up to rock — The strong rending of boughs from the fir-tree, — the cool silver shock Of the plunge in a pool's living water, — the hunt of the bear, And the sultriness showing the lion is couched in his lair.
Página 145 - The very God ! think, Abib ; dost thou think ? So, the All-Great, were the All-Loving too — So, through the thunder comes a human voice Saying, " O heart I made, a heart beats here ! Face, My hands fashioned, see it in Myself.
Página 7 - Sorrow is hard to bear, and doubt is slow to clear, Each sufferer says his say, his scheme of the weal and woe: But God has a few of us whom he whispers in the ear; The rest may reason and welcome: 'tis we musicians know.
Página 109 - And so I live, you see, Go through the world, try, prove, reject, Prefer, still struggling to effect My warfare; happy that I can Be crossed and thwarted as a man, Not left in God's contempt apart, With ghastly smooth life, dead at heart, Tame in earth's paddock as her prize.
Página 150 - But if it be a question of words and names, and of your law, look ye to it; for I will be no judge of such matters.
Página 21 - Tis the weakness in strength, that I cry for ! my flesh, that I seek In the Godhead ! I seek and I find it. O Saul, it shall be A Face like my face that receives thee; a Man like to me, Thou shalt love and be loved by, forever: a Hand like this hand Shall throw open the gates of new life to thee! See the Christ stand!
Página 161 - O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife ; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...