Selections from the Poetical Works of Robert Browning: First SeriesMacmillan, 1884 - 288 pages |
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... Watch Gismond for my part : I did . XV Did I not watch him while he let His armourer just brace his greaves , Rivet his hauberk , on the fret The while ! His foot . . . my memory leaves No least stamp out , nor how anon He pulled his ...
... Watch Gismond for my part : I did . XV Did I not watch him while he let His armourer just brace his greaves , Rivet his hauberk , on the fret The while ! His foot . . . my memory leaves No least stamp out , nor how anon He pulled his ...
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... watches long , " Serving most with none to see . " VIII Never say — as something bodes— 66 So , the worst has yet a worse ! " When life halts ' neath double loads , " Better the task - master's curse " Than such music on the roads ! IX ...
... watches long , " Serving most with none to see . " VIII Never say — as something bodes— 66 So , the worst has yet a worse ! " When life halts ' neath double loads , " Better the task - master's curse " Than such music on the roads ! IX ...
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... worth aught , Of the weight by day and the watch by night , And much wrong now that used to be right , So , thanking him , declined the hunting , — Was conduct ever more affronting ? With all the ceremony 32 THE FLIGHT OF THE DUCHESS .
... worth aught , Of the weight by day and the watch by night , And much wrong now that used to be right , So , thanking him , declined the hunting , — Was conduct ever more affronting ? With all the ceremony 32 THE FLIGHT OF THE DUCHESS .
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... watch she tried to keep , In a rosy sleep along the floor With her head against the door ; While in the midst , on the seat of state , Was a queen - the Gipsy woman late , With head and face downbent On the lady's head and face intent ...
... watch she tried to keep , In a rosy sleep along the floor With her head against the door ; While in the midst , on the seat of state , Was a queen - the Gipsy woman late , With head and face downbent On the lady's head and face intent ...
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... watch , as the gate - bolts undrew ; " Speed ! " echoed the wall to us galloping through ; Behind shut the postern , the lights sank to rest , And into the midnight we galloped abreast . II Not a word to each other ; we kept the great ...
... watch , as the gate - bolts undrew ; " Speed ! " echoed the wall to us galloping through ; Behind shut the postern , the lights sank to rest , And into the midnight we galloped abreast . II Not a word to each other ; we kept the great ...
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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 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 201 - There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound; What was good shall be good, with, for evil, so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round.
Page 278 - Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go ! Be our joys three-parts pain ! Strive, and hold cheap the strain ; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!
Page 273 - Do I find love so full in my nature, God's ultimate gift, That I doubt his own love can compete with it? Here, the parts shift? Here, the creature surpass the creator, —the end, what began ? Would I fain in my impotent yearning do all for this man, And dare doubt he alone shall not help him, who yet alone can...
Page 200 - 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 282 - 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 262 - Oh, our manhood's prime vigour ! no spirit feels waste, Not a muscle is stopped in its playing, nor sinew unbraced. Oh, the wild joys of living! the leaping from rock up to rock — The strong rending of boughs from the fir-tree, — the cool silver shock Of the plunge in a pool's living water, — the hunt of the bear, And the sultriness showing the lion is couched in his lair.
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 277 - 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!