 Which, while I forded, — good saints, how I feared To set my foot upon a dead man's cheek, Each step, or feel the spear I thrust to seek For hollows, tangled in his hair ,or beard ! — It may have been a water-rat I speared, But, ugh ! it sounded like...  Men and Women and Sordella - Page 102by Robert Browning - 1886Full view - About this book
 | Robert Browning - 1856 - 386 pages
...: The river which had done them all the wrong, Whate'er that was, rolled by, deterred no whit. 21. Which, while I forded, — good saints, how I feared...for a better country. Vain presage ! Who were the strugglers, what war did they wage Whose savage trample thus could pad the dank Soil to a plash ? toads... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1874 - 372 pages
...: The river which had done them all the wrong, Whate'er that was, rolled by, deterred no whit. XXI. Which, while I forded, — good saints, how I feared...speared, But, ugh ! it sounded like a baby's shriek. XXII. Glad was I when I reached the other bank. Now for a better country. Vain presage ! Who were the... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1876 - 360 pages
...which had done them all the wrong, Whate'er that was, rolled by, deterred no whit. 21. Which, wliile I forded, — good saints, how I feared To set my...for a better country. Vain presage ! Who were the strugglers, what war did they wage Whose savage trample thus could pad the dank Soil to a plash ? toads... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1882 - 328 pages
...: The river which had done them all the wrong, Whate'er that was, rolled by, deterred no whit. XXI. Which, while I forded, — good saints, how I feared...to seek For hollows, tangled in his hair or beard ! XIII. Glad was I when I reached the other bank. Now for a better country. Vain presage ! Who were... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1884 - 308 pages
...: The river which had done them all the wrong, Whate'er that was, rolled by, deterred no whit. XXI Which, while I forded, — good saints, how I feared...speared, But, ugh ! it sounded like a baby's shriek. XXII Glad was I when I reached the other bank. Now for a better country. Vain presage ! Who were the... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1884 - 346 pages
...throng: The river which had done them all the wrong, Whate'er that was, rolled by, deterred no whit. XXI. Which, while I forded, — good saints, how I feared...speared, But, ugh! it sounded like a baby's shriek. XXII. Glad was I when I reached the other bank. Now for a better country. Vain presage! Who were the... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1884 - 308 pages
...: The river which had done them all the wrong, Whate'er that was, rolled by, deterred no whit. XXI Which, while I forded, — good saints, how I feared...speared, But, ugh ! it sounded like a baby's shriek. XXII Glad was I when I reached the other bank. Now for a better country. Vain presage ! Who were the... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1886 - 344 pages
...throng : The river which had done them all the wrong, Whate'er that was, rolled by, deterred no whit. Which, while I forded, — good saints, how I feared...speared, But, ugh ! it sounded like a baby's shriek. XXII. Glad was I when I reached the other bank. Now for a better country. Vain presage ! Who were the... | |
 | Arthur Symons - 1886 - 248 pages
...throng : The river which had done them all the wrong, Whate'er that was, rolled by, deterred no whit. " Which, while I forded, — good saints, how I feared...speared, But, ugh ! it sounded like a baby's shriek." The manner of the poem, perfectly unlike that of any other poem whatever, may be described by varying... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1886 - 276 pages
...The river which had done them all the wrong, Whate'er that was, rolled by, deterred no whit. 120 XXI. Which, while I forded, — good saints, how I feared...beard! — It may have been a water-rat I speared, 1«s But, ugh ! it sounded like a baby's shriek. XXII. Glad was I when I reached the other bank. Now... | |
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