Dramatis PersonaeChapman and Hall, 1864 - 250 pages |
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... deranged : Summer has stopped . 2 . Look in my eyes ! Wilt thou change too ? Should I fear surprise ? Shall I find aught new In the old and dear , In the good and true , With the changing year ? 3 . Thou art a man , But I am.
... deranged : Summer has stopped . 2 . Look in my eyes ! Wilt thou change too ? Should I fear surprise ? Shall I find aught new In the old and dear , In the good and true , With the changing year ? 3 . Thou art a man , But I am.
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... fear , almost , -of the limit - line ! As I looked at this , and learned and drew , Drew and learned , and looked again , While fast the happy minutes flew , Its beauty mounted into my brain , And a fancy seized me ; I was fain JAMES ...
... fear , almost , -of the limit - line ! As I looked at this , and learned and drew , Drew and learned , and looked again , While fast the happy minutes flew , Its beauty mounted into my brain , And a fancy seized me ; I was fain JAMES ...
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... fears , - you draw profit while she preached ? Did 10 . Resolving " Fools we wise men grow ! Yes , I could easily blurt out curt Some question that might find reply As prompt in her stopped lips , dropped eye , And rush of red to cheek ...
... fears , - you draw profit while she preached ? Did 10 . Resolving " Fools we wise men grow ! Yes , I could easily blurt out curt Some question that might find reply As prompt in her stopped lips , dropped eye , And rush of red to cheek ...
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... Fear no slips ! ' Tis your slave shall pay , while his soul endures , Full due , love's whole debt , summum jus . My queen shall have high observance , planned Courtship made perfect , no least line Crossed without warrant . There you ...
... Fear no slips ! ' Tis your slave shall pay , while his soul endures , Full due , love's whole debt , summum jus . My queen shall have high observance , planned Courtship made perfect , no least line Crossed without warrant . There you ...
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... of houses not made with hands ! What , have fear of change from Thee who art ever the same ? Doubt that Thy power can fill the heart that Thy power expands ? ABT VOGLER . 73 There shall never be one lost 72 ABT VOGLER .
... of houses not made with hands ! What , have fear of change from Thee who art ever the same ? Doubt that Thy power can fill the heart that Thy power expands ? ABT VOGLER . 73 There shall never be one lost 72 ABT VOGLER .
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ABT VOGLER AURORA LEIGH awhile beast believe brain breath brow CALIBAN UPON SETEBOS Cerinthus cheat Christ clay dead death Don't fear doubt earth eyes face fact fancy Fcap fear feel fingers fire flesh fool gain ghost give gold grow hair hand hate hath head hear heard heart Heaven JAMES LEE Judge kiss laugh life's lips live look Louis-d'or man's mind mouth NATURAL THEOLOGY never nought o'er once pain play PORNIC praise prove RABBI BEN EZRA raps ROBERT BROWNING round Saint Paul sainted Setebos sigh Sludge smile soul speak spirit STAMFORD STREET stars stop suppose sure tell thee There's things thou thought to-day touch tricks truth turn twas Valens watch What's whole wonder word worth Xanthus youth
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Page 71 - But here is the finger of God, a flash of the will that can, Existent behind all laws: that made them, and, lo, they are! 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 73 - 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 79 - 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 77 - 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!
Page 73 - 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 81 - Spite of this flesh to-day I strove, made head, gained ground upon the whole!" As the bird wings and sings, Let us cry, "All good things Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul!
Page 79 - 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 85 - Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped; All I could never be, All, men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped.
Page 86 - He fixed thee mid this dance Of plastic circumstance, This Present, thou, forsooth, wouldst fain arrest : Machinery just meant To give thy soul its bent, Try thee and turn thee forth, sufficiently impressed.
Page 68 - ... angels that soar, legions of demons that lurk, Man, brute, reptile, fly, — alien of end and of aim, Adverse, each from the other heaven-high, hell-deep removed, — Should rush into sight at once as he named the ineffable Name, And pile him a palace straight, to pleasure the princess he loved ! 2.