Pocket Volume of Selections from the Poetical Works of Robert BrowningSmith, Elder, & Company, 1897 - 311 páginas |
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... Duchess painted on the wall , Looking as if she were alive . I call That piece a wonder , now : Frà Pandolf's hands Worked busily a day , and there she stands . Will't please you sit and look at her ? I said " Frà Pandolf " by design ...
... Duchess painted on the wall , Looking as if she were alive . I call That piece a wonder , now : Frà Pandolf's hands Worked busily a day , and there she stands . Will't please you sit and look at her ? I said " Frà Pandolf " by design ...
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Athens BEAN-FEAST blue breast breath brow cheek CLEON cried Dark Tower dead death dream Duhl earth eyes face fancy fear feast fire flesh flowers give God's gold grace grew Guido Reni guilders hair hand head heard heart heaven hope Hóseyn keep king kiss LAST DUCHESS laugh leave life's lips live look Louis-d'or love's lyre man's mouth never night nought o'er once paint pass past Pearl perfect Persia Pheidippides Pornic Porphyria praise pride prize prove quoth rest ride ROBERT BROWNING round shut side singing smile soul Sparta speak stand stood strive sure sure as fate sweet thee there's Theseus thing thou thought thro truth turn twas twixt Ulpian VIII wall Waring watch Weser what's wonder word youth Zeus
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Página 65 - Taming a sea-horse, thought a rarity, Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me!
Página 227 - 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.
Página 230 - 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 158 - Sixteen years old when she died ! Perhaps she had scarcely heard my name ; It was not her time to love ; beside, Her life had many a hope and aim, Duties enough and little...
Página 145 - Aix" — for one heard the quick wheeze Of her chest, saw the stretched neck and staggering knees, And sunk tail, and horrible heave of the flank, As down on her haunches she shuddered and sank.
Página 110 - ... wings: and just as I became assured my lame foot would be speedily cured. the music stopped and I stood still, and found myself outside the hill, left alone against my will, to go now limping as before, and never hear of that country more!
Página 158 - Evelyn Hope, what meant, I shall say, In the lower earth, in the years long still, That body and soul so pure and gay? Why your hair was amber, I shall divine, And your mouth of your own geranium's red, And what you would do with me, in fine, In the new life come in the old one's stead. I have lived, I shall say, so much since then, Given up myself so many times, Gained me the gains of various men, Ransacked the ages, spoiled the climes...
Página 274 - Twas the squadron that escaped, with the victor in full chase ; First and foremost of the drove, in his great ship, Damfreville...
Página 105 - Come in !" the Mayor cried, looking bigger, And in did come the strangest figure! His queer long coat, from heel to head Was half of yellow and half of red; And he himself was tall and thin, With sharp blue eyes, each like a pin, And light loose hair, yet swarthy skin, No tuft on cheek nor beard on chin, But lips where smiles went out and in; There was no guessing his kith and kin; And nobody could enough admire [ 245 ] The tall man and his quaint attire.
Página 234 - 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...