Dramatis PersonaeChapman and Hall, 1864 - 250 pages |
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... gone at November's rebuff . 4 . But why must cold spread ? but wherefore bring change To the spirit , God meant should mate His with an infinite range , And inherit His power to put life in the darkness and cold ? Oh , live and love ...
... gone at November's rebuff . 4 . But why must cold spread ? but wherefore bring change To the spirit , God meant should mate His with an infinite range , And inherit His power to put life in the darkness and cold ? Oh , live and love ...
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... gone or to go ; But the last , last grace , my all , my own , Let it stay in the grave , that the ghosts may know ! Leave my poor gold hair alone ! " 8 . The passion thus vented , dead lay she ; Her parents sobbed their worst on that ...
... gone or to go ; But the last , last grace , my all , my own , Let it stay in the grave , that the ghosts may know ! Leave my poor gold hair alone ! " 8 . The passion thus vented , dead lay she ; Her parents sobbed their worst on that ...
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... gone , But were back once more to breathe in an old world worth their new : What never had been , was now ; what was , as it shall be anon ; And what is , -shall I say , matched both ? for I was made perfect too . 6 . All through my ...
... gone , But were back once more to breathe in an old world worth their new : What never had been , was now ; what was , as it shall be anon ; And what is , -shall I say , matched both ? for I was made perfect too . 6 . All through my ...
Page 71
... It is everywhere in the world - loud , soft , and all is said : Give it to me to use ! I mix it with two in my thought ; And , there ! Ye have heard and seen : consider and bow the head ! 8 . Well , it is gone at last , ABT VOGLER . 71.
... It is everywhere in the world - loud , soft , and all is said : Give it to me to use ! I mix it with two in my thought ; And , there ! Ye have heard and seen : consider and bow the head ! 8 . Well , it is gone at last , ABT VOGLER . 71.
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... Gone ! and the good tears start , the praises that come too slow ; For one is assured at first , one scarce can say that he feared , That he even gave it a thought , the gone thing was to go . Never to be again ! But many more of the ...
... Gone ! and the good tears start , the praises that come too slow ; For one is assured at first , one scarce can say that he feared , That he even gave it a thought , the gone thing was to go . Never to be again ! But many more of the ...
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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.