Selections from the Poetical Works of Robert BrowningChapman and Hall, 1863 - 411 pages |
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... feel the steady candle - flame , and taste Good strong thick stupefying incense - smoke ! For as I lie here , hours of the dead night , Dying in state and by such slow degrees , I fold my arms as if they clasped a crook , And stretch my ...
... feel the steady candle - flame , and taste Good strong thick stupefying incense - smoke ! For as I lie here , hours of the dead night , Dying in state and by such slow degrees , I fold my arms as if they clasped a crook , And stretch my ...
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... feels but queasily , And a sinking at the lower abdomen Begins the day with indifferent omen : And lo , as he looked around uneasily , The sun ploughed the fog up and drove it asunder This way and that from the valley under ; And ...
... feels but queasily , And a sinking at the lower abdomen Begins the day with indifferent omen : And lo , as he looked around uneasily , The sun ploughed the fog up and drove it asunder This way and that from the valley under ; And ...
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... feel , our pride to show , Glad , angry - but indifferent , no ! Whether it is thy lot to go , For the good of us all , where the haters meet In the crowded city's horrible street ; Or thou step alone thro ' the morass Where never sound ...
... feel , our pride to show , Glad , angry - but indifferent , no ! Whether it is thy lot to go , For the good of us all , where the haters meet In the crowded city's horrible street ; Or thou step alone thro ' the morass Where never sound ...
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... feeling exceeded me , -Something to the effect that I was in readiness Whenever God should please she needed me- Then , do you know her face looked down on me With a look that placed a crown on me , And she felt it in her bosom - mark ...
... feeling exceeded me , -Something to the effect that I was in readiness Whenever God should please she needed me- Then , do you know her face looked down on me With a look that placed a crown on me , And she felt it in her bosom - mark ...
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... feel now , Ottima ? There , curse The world and all outside ! Let us throw off This mask . How do you bear yourself ? Let's out With all of it ! Otti . Best never speak of it . Seb . Best speak again and yet again of it , Till words ...
... feel now , Ottima ? There , curse The world and all outside ! Let us throw off This mask . How do you bear yourself ? Let's out With all of it ! Otti . Best never speak of it . Seb . Best speak again and yet again of it , Till words ...
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Page 30 - So we were left galloping, Joris and I, Past Looz and past Tongres, no cloud in the sky; The broad sun above laughed a pitiless laugh, 'Neath our feet broke the brittle, bright stubble like chaff; Till over by Dalhem a dome-spire sprang white, And "Gallop," gasped Joris, "for Aix is in sight!
Page 29 - Good speed!" cried the watch as the gate-bolts undrew, "Speed!" echoed the wall to us galloping through. Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest, And into the midnight we galloped abreast.
Page 14 - Then off there flung in smiling joy, And held himself erect By just his horse's mane, a boy: You hardly could suspect — (So tight he kept his lips compressed, Scarce any blood came through) You looked twice ere you saw his breast Was all but shot in two. "Well," cried he, "Emperor, by God's grace We've got you Ratisbon!
Page 19 - And licked the soup from the cooks' own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats, By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats. At last the people in a body To the Town Hall came flocking: "Tis clear...
Page 234 - 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...
Page 26 - I'm bereft Of all the pleasant sights they see, Which the Piper also promised me. For he led us, he said, to a joyous land, Joining the town and just at hand, Where waters gushed and fruit-trees grew And flowers put forth a fairer hue, And everything was strange and new...
Page 231 - Where a multitude of men breathed joy and woe Long ago; Lust of glory pricked their hearts up, dread of shame Struck them tame; And that glory and that shame alike, the gold Bought and sold.
Page 23 - You should have heard the Hamelin people Ringing the bells till they rocked the steeple. " Go," cried the Mayor, " and get long poles, Poke out the nests and block up the holes ! Consult with carpenters and builders, And leave in our town not even a trace Of the rats! " — when suddenly, up the face Of the Piper perked in the market-place, W>th a, " First, if you please, my thousand guilders !
Page 104 - There is an inmost centre in us all, Where truth abides in fulness ; and around Wall upon wall, the gross flesh hems it in, This perfect, clear perception — which is truth ; A baffling and perverting carnal mesh Blinds it, and makes all error : and, " to know" Rather consists in opening out a way Whence the imprisoned splendour may escape, Than in effecting entry for a light Supposed to be without.
Page 17 - There's a great text in Galatians, Once you trip on it, entails Twenty-nine distinct damnations, One sure, if another fails; If I trip him just a-dying, Sure of heaven as sure can be, Spin him round and send him flying Off to hell, a Manichee?