Poems: A blot in the 'scutcheonTicknor, Reed and Fields, 1850 |
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... ANAEL . Initiated Druses - MAANI . " 7 KARSHOOK , RAGHIB , AYOOB , and others . Uninitiated Druses . Prefect's Guard , Nuncio's At- TIME , 14- . tendants , Admiral's Force . PLACE , AN Islet of the Southern Sporades , colonised by ...
... ANAEL . Initiated Druses - MAANI . " 7 KARSHOOK , RAGHIB , AYOOB , and others . Uninitiated Druses . Prefect's Guard , Nuncio's At- TIME , 14- . tendants , Admiral's Force . PLACE , AN Islet of the Southern Sporades , colonised by ...
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... ! Never spoke A boy so like a song - bird ; we avouch thee Prettiest of all our Master's instruments Except thy bright twin - sister - thou and Anael Challenge his prime regard : but we may crave ( 66 THE RETURN OF THE DRUSES .
... ! Never spoke A boy so like a song - bird ; we avouch thee Prettiest of all our Master's instruments Except thy bright twin - sister - thou and Anael Challenge his prime regard : but we may crave ( 66 THE RETURN OF THE DRUSES .
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... Anael graces The cedar throne , his Queen - bride , art thou like To occupy its lowest step that day ! Now , Khalil , wert thou checked as thou aspirest , Forbidden such or such an honour , —say , Would silence serve so amply ? Kha ...
... Anael graces The cedar throne , his Queen - bride , art thou like To occupy its lowest step that day ! Now , Khalil , wert thou checked as thou aspirest , Forbidden such or such an honour , —say , Would silence serve so amply ? Kha ...
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... Anael- -once The deed achieved , our Khalif , casting off The embodied Awe's tremendous mystery , The weakness of the flesh disguise , resumes His proper glory , ne'er to fade again . Enter a Druse . The Druse . Our Prefect lands from ...
... Anael- -once The deed achieved , our Khalif , casting off The embodied Awe's tremendous mystery , The weakness of the flesh disguise , resumes His proper glory , ne'er to fade again . Enter a Druse . The Druse . Our Prefect lands from ...
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... Anael ! How fares Anael ? ) — " Intercourse " With few or none ? " Forget you , I've been friendly With Djabal long ere you or any Druse ? -Enough of him at Rennes , I think , beneath The Duke my father's roof ! He'd tell by the hour ...
... Anael ! How fares Anael ? ) — " Intercourse " With few or none ? " Forget you , I've been friendly With Djabal long ere you or any Druse ? -Enough of him at Rennes , I think , beneath The Duke my father's roof ! He'd tell by the hour ...
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Anael arms Austin bezants blood Brac Braccio breast breath brow cheek Chiappino dare dead deed Djabal DOMIZIA doubt dream Druses Duke Enter eyes face Faenza faith Florence Florentines Gerard give God's gold Guards Guen Guendolen guilders Hakeem hand head hear heard heart Heaven hold Jacynth keep Khalil knew Lady laugh leave Lebanon lips live look Lord Tresham Loys Lucca Luit Luitolfo Luria Masaccio Mertoun Mildred neath never night Nuncio o'er Ogni once past Pisa praise Prefect pride Provost Puccio round seemed shame silent soul speak spoke stand stood sure sure as fate sword tell thee there's Theseus thine Thorold thou art thought thro Tiburzio Tresh tribe trust truth turn twas Venice voice What's word wrong
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Page 320 - Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood up in the stirrup, leaned, patted his ear, Called my Roland his pet-name, my horse without peer; Clapped my hands, laughed and sang, any noise, bad or good, Till at length into Aix Roland galloped and stood. And all I remember is, friends flocking round As I...
Page 312 - 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, With a 'First, if you please, my thousand guilders!
Page 319 - 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 346 - Old Gandolf with his paltry onion-stone, Put me where I may look at him! True peach, Rosy and flawless: how I earned the prize! Draw close: that conflagration of my church — What then? So much was saved if aught were missed!
Page 318 - ... other; we kept the great pace Neck by neck, stride by stride, never changing our place; I turned in my saddle and made its girths tight, Then shortened each stirrup, and set the pique right, Rebuckled the cheek-strap, chained slacker the bit, Nor galloped less steadily Roland a whit.
Page 258 - Fra Pandolf" by design, for never read Strangers like you that pictured countenance, The depth and passion of its earnest glance, But to myself they turned (since none puts by The curtain I have drawn for you, but I...
Page 266 - 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.
Page 306 - HAMELIN Town's in Brunswick, By famous Hanover city; The river Weser, deep and wide, Washes its wall on the southern side; A pleasanter spot you never spied ; But, when begins my ditty, Almost five hundred years ago, To see the townsfolk suffer so From vermin, was a pity.
Page 310 - Smiling first a little smile, As if he knew what magic slept In his quiet pipe the while; Then, like a musical adept, To blow the pipe his lips he wrinkled, And green and blue his sharp eyes twinkled, Like a...
Page 319 - 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.