 | Robert Browning - 1874 - 372 páginas
...tired winds are fain, Spent with the vast and howling main, To treasure half their island gain. II. And strew faint sweetness from some old Egyptian's...books among, As when a queen, long dead, was young. THROUGH THE METIDJA TO ABD-EL-KADR. 1842. As I ride, as I ride, With a full heart for my guide, So... | |
 | 1883 - 378 páginas
...takes me, And by noontide as by midnight make her mine, as hers she makes me ! FROM "PARACELSUS" SONG Heap cassia, sandal-buds and stripes Of labdanum,...books among, As when a queen, long dead, was young. WARING What 's become of Waring Since he gave us all the slip, Chose land-travel or seafaring, Boots... | |
 | English poets - 1883 - 364 páginas
...vast and howling main, To treasure half their island-gain. And strew faint sweetness from some old Or shredded perfume, like a cloud From closet long...books among, As when a queen, long dead, was young. WARING What's become of Waring Since he gave us all the slip, Chose land-travel or seafaring, Boots... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1884 - 308 páginas
...tired winds are fain, Spent with the vast and howling rrain, To treasure half their island gain. II And strew faint sweetness from some old Egyptian's...books among, As when a queen, long dead, was young. THROUGH THE METIDJA TO ABD-EL-KADR. 1842. i As I ride, as I ride, With a full heart for my guide, So... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1884 - 308 páginas
...tired winds are fain, Spent with the vast and howling irain, To treasure half their island gain. II And strew faint sweetness from some old Egyptian's...books among, As when a queen, long dead, was young. THROUGH THE METIDJA TO ABD-EL-KADR. I As I ride, as I ride, With a full heart for my guide, So its... | |
 | 1885 - 686 páginas
...where tired winds are fain, Spent with the vast and howling main, To treasure half their island gain. And strew faint sweetness from some old Egyptian's...books among, As when a queen, long dead, was young. THE LOST MISTRESS. ALL'S over, then : does truth sound bitter As one at first believes? Hark, 'tis... | |
 | Thomas Young Crowell - 1885 - 702 páginas
...where tired winds are fain, Spent with the vast and howling main, To treasure half their island gain. And strew faint sweetness from some old Egyptian's...like a cloud From closet long to quiet vowed, With molded and dropping arras bung, Mouldering her lute and books among, As when a queen, long dead, was... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1886 - 344 páginas
...tired winds are fain, Spent with the vast and howling main. To treasure half their island gain. п. And strew faint sweetness from some old Egyptian's...like a cloud From closet long to quiet vowed, With muthed and dropping arras hung. Mouldering her lute and books among, As when a queen, long dead, was... | |
 | Harry Butler SIMPSON - 1888 - 222 páginas
...inspire us with the subtle and haunting suggestions which are as inexpressible in mere words as — " The faint sweetness from some old Egyptian's fine worm-eaten...perfume like a cloud From closet long to quiet vowed." That the classical ideal was never historically realized, and that human nature is much the same, whether... | |
 | William Sharp - 1890 - 258 páginas
...songs, one wherein the influence of Keats is so marked, and yet where all is the poet's own : — " Heap cassia, sandal-buds and stripes Of labdanum,...books among, As when a queen, long dead, was young." With this music in our ears we can well forgive some of the prosaic commonplaces which deface "Paracelsus"... | |
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Heap cassia, sandal-buds and stripes Of labdanum, and aloe-balls, Smeared with dull nard an Indian wipes From out her hair: such balsam falls Down sea-side mountain pedestals, From tree-tops where tired winds are fain, Spent with the vast and howling... 
