Selections from the Poetical Works of Robert Browning, Volume 1Macmillan and Company, 1884 |
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... live , I never fancied such a thing As answer possible to give . What says the body when they spring Some monstrous torture - engine's whole Strength on it ? No more says the soul . XII Till out strode Gismond ; then I knew That I was ...
... live , I never fancied such a thing As answer possible to give . What says the body when they spring Some monstrous torture - engine's whole Strength on it ? No more says the soul . XII Till out strode Gismond ; then I knew That I was ...
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... lives in praising ; To praise , you search the wide world over ; Then why not witness , calmly gazing , If earth holds aught - speak truth - above her ? Above this tress , and this , I touch But cannot praise , I love so much ! A ...
... lives in praising ; To praise , you search the wide world over ; Then why not witness , calmly gazing , If earth holds aught - speak truth - above her ? Above this tress , and this , I touch But cannot praise , I love so much ! A ...
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... lives in clover . XV But you meet the Prince at the Board , I'm queen myself at bals - parés , I've married a rich old lord , And you're dubbed knight and an R.A. XVI Each life's unfulfilled , you see ; It hangs still , patchy and ...
... lives in clover . XV But you meet the Prince at the Board , I'm queen myself at bals - parés , I've married a rich old lord , And you're dubbed knight and an R.A. XVI Each life's unfulfilled , you see ; It hangs still , patchy and ...
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... Live and aware looked out of their places . So , we went and found Jacynth at the entry Of the lady's chamber standing sentry . I told the command and produced my companion , And Jacynth rejoiced , she said , to admit any one , For ...
... Live and aware looked out of their places . So , we went and found Jacynth at the entry Of the lady's chamber standing sentry . I told the command and produced my companion , And Jacynth rejoiced , she said , to admit any one , For ...
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... live or to die . As for finding what she wanted , You know God Almighty granted Such little signs should serve wild creatures To tell one another all their desires , So that each knows what his friend requires , And does its bidding ...
... live or to die . As for finding what she wanted , You know God Almighty granted Such little signs should serve wild creatures To tell one another all their desires , So that each knows what his friend requires , And does its bidding ...
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Page 214 - FEAR death ? — to feel the fog in my throat, The mist in my face, When the snows begin, and the blasts denote I am nearing the place, The power of the night, the press of the storm, The post of the foe ; Where he stands, the Arch Fear in a visible form, Yet the strong man must go...
Page 56 - 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 201 - All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good, shall exist ; Not its semblance, but itself ; no beauty, nor good, nor power • Whose voice has gone forth, but each survives for the melodist When eternity affirms the conception of an hour.
Page 209 - 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 281 - Now, who shall arbitrate? Ten men love what I hate, Shun what I follow, slight what I receive; Ten, who in ears and eyes Match me: we all surmise, They this thing, and I that: whom shall my soul believe? Not on the vulgar mass Called "work...
Page 2 - 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 200 - Why, there it had stood, to see, nor the process so wonderworth : Had I written the same, made verse — still, effect proceeds from cause, Ye know why the forms are fair, ye hear how the tale is told...
Page 278 - For thence, — a paradox Which comforts while it mocks, — Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me: A brute I might have been, but would not sink i
Page 263 - ... the rest. And thy brothers, the help and the contest, the working whence grew Such result as, from seething grape-bundles, the spirit strained true : And the friends of thy boyhood — that boyhood of wonder and hope, Present promise and wealth of the future beyond the eye's scope...
Page 272 - There's a faculty pleasant to exercise, hard to hoodwink, I am fain to keep still in abeyance, (I laugh as I think) Lest, insisting to claim and parade in it, wot ye, I worst E'en the Giver in one gift — Behold, I could love if I durst!