The Poems of Robert BrowningCrowell, 1896 - 512 pages |
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... thee in the midst , And to one and all of them describe What thou saidst and what thou didst , Our long and terrible journey through , And all thou art ready to say and do In the trials that remain . I trace them the vein and the other ...
... thee in the midst , And to one and all of them describe What thou saidst and what thou didst , Our long and terrible journey through , And all thou art ready to say and do In the trials that remain . I trace them the vein and the other ...
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... thee , to one and all , Fit , when my people ope their breast , To see the sign , and hear the call , And take the vow , and stand the test Which adds one more child to the rest When the breast is bare and the arms are wide , And the ...
... thee , to one and all , Fit , when my people ope their breast , To see the sign , and hear the call , And take the vow , and stand the test Which adds one more child to the rest When the breast is bare and the arms are wide , And the ...
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... Thee with us or us with thee , - As climbing plant or propping tree , Shall some one deck thee over and down , Up and about , with blossoms and leaves ? Fix his heart's fruit for thy garland - crown , Cling with his soul as the gourd ...
... Thee with us or us with thee , - As climbing plant or propping tree , Shall some one deck thee over and down , Up and about , with blossoms and leaves ? Fix his heart's fruit for thy garland - crown , Cling with his soul as the gourd ...
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... thee , all my heart In this my singing . For the stars help me , and the sea bears part ; The very night is clinging Closer to Venice ' streets to leave one space Above me , whence thy face May light my joyous heart to thee its dwelling ...
... thee , all my heart In this my singing . For the stars help me , and the sea bears part ; The very night is clinging Closer to Venice ' streets to leave one space Above me , whence thy face May light my joyous heart to thee its dwelling ...
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... thee , farther than friends can pursue , To a feast of our tribe ; Where they need thee to bribe The devil that blasts them unless he imbibe Thy ... Scatter the vision for ever ! And now , As of old , I am I , thou art thou ! Say again ...
... thee , farther than friends can pursue , To a feast of our tribe ; Where they need thee to bribe The devil that blasts them unless he imbibe Thy ... Scatter the vision for ever ! And now , As of old , I am I , thou art thou ! Say again ...
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Page 207 - GROW old along with me ! * The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made : Our times are in His hand Who saith " A whole I planned, "Youth shows but half; trust God: see all nor be afraid !
Page 41 - for Aix is in sight!" VIII "How they'll greet us! " — and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone; And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news which alone could save Aix from her fate, With his nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-sockets
Page 165 - ... creep past. No ! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers The heroes of old, Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness and cold. For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end, And the elements...
Page 44 - Shakespeare was of us, Milton was for us, Burns, Shelley, were with us, — they watch from their graves ! He alone breaks from the van and the freemen, — He alone sinks to the rear and the slaves! We shall march prospering, — not thro...
Page 131 - For, don't you mark, we're made so that we love First when we see them painted, things we have passed Perhaps a hundred times nor cared to see ; And so they are better, painted — better to us, Which is the same thing. Art was given for that — God uses us to help each other so, Lending our minds out.
Page 457 - One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.
Page 44 - JUST for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat — Found the one gift of which fortune bereft us, Lost all the others she lets us devote ; They, with the gold to give, doled him out silver, So much was theirs who so little allowed : How all our copper had gone for his service ! Rags — were they purple, his heart had been proud ! We that had loved him so, followed him, honoured him, Lived in his mild and magnificent eye, Learned his great language, caught his clear...
Page 160 - HOPE BEAUTIFUL Evelyn Hope is dead! Sit and watch by her side an hour. That is her book-shelf, this her bed; She plucked that piece of geranium-flower, Beginning to die too, in the glass; Little has yet been changed, I think : The shutters are shut, no light may pass Save two long rays thro
Page 154 - 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.
Page 40 - Your Roos galloped bravely, the fault's not in her. We'll remember at 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.