Men and WomenJ. R. Osgood, 1876 - 351 pages |
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beat beauty believe better break breast breath brow cheek CLEON CONSTANCE crown dare DARK TOWER dear death diest don't fear doubt dream earth eyes face faith fancy Fano fear feel Fiesole fire flesh Florence flowers fool Giotto give God's goes gold grace grew Guido Reni hair hand head heart heaven hope hopes and fears king kiss leave life's lip's live look love's lute Madonnas man's mind neath never night NORBERT nought o'er once paint Pandulph perfect play poor praise pride prove QUEEN Rafael ROBERT BROWNING Rome rose round saith Saul shut side sleep smile soul speak stand star sweet thee there's thing thou thought thro true truth turn twas twixt watch what's whole woman wonder word youth Zeus
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Page 183 - AH, DID you once see Shelley plain, And did he stop and speak to you, And did you speak to him again ? How strange it seems, and new...
Page 149 - The common problem, yours, mine, every one's, Is — not to fancy what were fair in life Provided it could be, — but, finding first What may be, then find how to make it fair Up to our means...
Page 14 - 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 331 - He, whom we convoy to his grave aloft, Singing together, He was a man born with thy face and throat, Lyric Apollo! Long he lived nameless: how should spring take note Winter would follow? Till lo, the little touch, and youth was gone! Cramped and diminished, Moaned he, "New measures, other feet anon! "My dance is finished?
Page 36 - 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 264 - Then I played the help-tune of our reapers, their wine-song, when hand Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship, and great hearts expand And grow one in the sense of this world's life.
Page 133 - Might she have loved me? Just as well She might have hated, who can tell? Where had I been now if the worst befell? And here we are riding, she and I. Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?
Page 332 - Oh, such a life as he resolved to live, When he had learned it, When he had gathered all books had to give! Sooner, he spurned it.
Page 136 - The air broke into a mist with bells, The old walls rocked with the crowd and cries. Had I said, "Good folk, mere noise repels — But give me your sun from yonder skies!" They had answered, "And afterward, what else?
Page 74 - Sayeth that such an one was born and lived, Taught, healed the sick, broke bread at his own house, Then died, with Lazarus by, for aught I know, And yet was . . . what I said nor choose repeat...