Fifine at the Fair, and Other PoemsJ. R. Osgood, 1872 - 280 páginas |
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Bateleurs beneath beside better boast breath computists cries Damfreville dare deed dream earth Elvire face false falsehood fancy fate fear Fifine flame flesh fools France gain give glory God's grace Groundlings half hand hate head heart heaven Hervé Riel Hohenstiel-Schwangau hope keep laughed leave Leicester Square less little hour live look man's mankind matter means meant mind mouth nature neath needs never nought o'er once peace perchance plain play Pornic praise pride prize prove Raphael reach Residenz rocks and shoals Rome round Sagacity Saint Gille sense ship smile somehow soul soul's stand stept sure sure as fate tambourine taste there's things thou thought touch true truth turn twixt wave what's whence whereof whole word worth
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Página 275 - Morn and eve, night and day, Have I piloted your bay, Entered free and anchored fast at the foot of Solidor. Burn the fleet and ruin France? That were worse than fifty Hogues \ Sirs, they know I speak the truth ! Sirs, believe me, there's a way I Only let me lead the line, Have the biggest ship to steer, Get this 'Formidable...
Página 277 - Out burst all with one accord, " This is Paradise for Hell ! Let France, let France's king Thank the man that did the thing...
Página 159 - Ah, but if you knew how time has dragged, days, nights! All the neighbor-talk with man and maid — such men ! All the fuss and trouble of street-sounds, window-sights : All the worry of flapping door and echoing roof ; and then, All the fancies . . . Who were they had leave, dared try Darker arts that almost struck despair in me ? If you knew but how I dwelt down here ! " quoth I : " And was I so better off up there ?
Página 276 - See, safe through shoal and rock, How they follow in a flock. Not a ship that misbehaves, not a keel that grates the ground. Not a spar that comes to grief! The peril, see, is past, All are harbored to the last; And just as Herve Kiel hollas "Anchor!
Página 158 - SAVAGE I was sitting in my house, late, lone: Dreary, weary with the long day's work: Head of me, heart of me, stupid as a stone : Tongue-tied now, now blaspheming like a Turk ; When, in a moment, just a knock, call, cry, Half a pang and all a rapture, there again were we ! — " What, and is it really you again ? " quoth I: " I again, what else did you expect ?
Página 271 - Hogue, sixteen hundred ninety-two, Did the English fight the French, — woe to France! And, the thirty-first of May, helterskelter through the blue. Like a crowd of frightened porpoises a shoal of sharks pursue, Came crowding ship on ship to Saint Malo on the Ranee, With the English fleet in view.
Página 275 - Formidable' clear, Make the others follow mine, And I lead them, most and least, by a passage I know well, Right to Solidor past Greve, And there lay them safe and sound; And if one ship misbehave, — Keel so much as grate the ground, Why, I've nothing but my life, — here's my head!
Página 29 - O' the beauty in review ; because the flesh that claimed Unduly my regard, she thought, the taste, she blamed In me, for things externe, was all mistake, she finds, — Or will find, when I prove that bodies show me minds, That, through the outward sign, the inward grace allures, And sparks from heaven transpierce earth's coarsest covertures, All by demonstrating the value of Fifine ! XXIX. Partake my confidence ! No creature 's made so mean But that, some way, it boasts, could we investigate, Its...
Página 273 - Here's the English at our heels; would you have them take in tow All that's left us of the fleet linked together stern and bow, For a prize to Plymouth Sound? Better run the ships aground!
Página 278 - My friend, I must speak out at the end, Though I find the speaking hard. Praise is deeper than the lips : You have saved the King his ships, You must name your own reward. 'Faith, our sun was near eclipse ! Demand whate'er you will, France remains your debtor still. Ask to heart's content and have! or my name's not Damfreville.