Selections from the Poetical Works of Robert Browning: From the Sixth London Edition (first and Second Series)Crowell, 1886 - 298 pages |
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... stands ! " quoth the king : 66 we may well swear ( No novice , we've won our spurs else- where , And so can afford the confession ) , We exercise wholesome discretion In keeping aloof from his threshold ; Once hold you , those jaws want ...
... stands ! " quoth the king : 66 we may well swear ( No novice , we've won our spurs else- where , And so can afford the confession ) , We exercise wholesome discretion In keeping aloof from his threshold ; Once hold you , those jaws want ...
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... stand thus , see and be seen , At the proper place in the proper minute , And die away the life between . And it was amusing enough , each in- fraction Of rule ( but for after - sadness that came ) To hear the consummate self - satisfac ...
... stand thus , see and be seen , At the proper place in the proper minute , And die away the life between . And it was amusing enough , each in- fraction Of rule ( but for after - sadness that came ) To hear the consummate self - satisfac ...
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... standing sen- try ; I told the command and produced my companion , And Jacynth rejoiced to admit any one , For since last night , by the same token , Not a single word had the lady spoken : They went in both to the presence together ...
... standing sen- try ; I told the command and produced my companion , And Jacynth rejoiced to admit any one , For since last night , by the same token , Not a single word had the lady spoken : They went in both to the presence together ...
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... stand the test Which adds one more child to the rest- When the breast is bare and the arms are wide , And the world is left outside . For there is probation to decree , And many and long must the trials be Thou shalt victoriously endure ...
... stand the test Which adds one more child to the rest- When the breast is bare and the arms are wide , And the world is left outside . For there is probation to decree , And many and long must the trials be Thou shalt victoriously endure ...
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From the Sixth London Edition (first and Second Series) Robert Browning. Stand up , look below , It is our life at thy feet we throw To step with into light and joy ; Not a power of life but we employ To satisfy thy nature's want ; Art ...
From the Sixth London Edition (first and Second Series) Robert Browning. Stand up , look below , It is our life at thy feet we throw To step with into light and joy ; Not a power of life but we employ To satisfy thy nature's want ; Art ...
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Athens beauty breast breath brow Cerinthus cheek crown dare DARK TOWER dead death doubt dream Duke earth eyes face faith fancy fear FILIPPO BALDINUCCI fire flesh flower fool Giotto give God's gold grace grow hair hand head hear heart heaven hope Jacynth Jews kiss lady laugh leave life's lips live look Louis-d'or love's man's mind mouth naught neath never night o'er once paint Pheidippides PIPPA PASSES play Pornic Porphyria praise prove Queen RABBI BEN EZRA rest ride rose round Saint Saint Paul sing Sludge smile song soul speak star stopped sure sweet tell thee there's Theseus things thou thought Titian TOCCATA OF GALUPPI'S truth turn twas twixt VIII watch what's wonder word youth Zeus
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Page 25 - Past Looz and past Tongres, no cloud in the sky; The broad sun above laughed a pitiless laugh, 'Neath our feet broke the brittle, bright stubble like chaff; Till over by Dalhem a dome-spire sprang white, And "Gallop," gasped Joris, "for Aix is in sight!
Page 23 - I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three; " Good speed ! " cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew ;
Page 25 - Aix" — for one heard the quick wheeze Of her chest, saw the stretched neck and staggering knees, And sunk tail, and horrible heave of the flank, As down on her haunches she shuddered and sank.
Page 45 - THE gray sea and the long black land; And the yellow half-moon large and low; And the startled little waves that leap In fiery ringlets from their sleep, As I gain the cove with pushing prow, And quench its speed i
Page 121 - And the sultriness showing the lion is couched in his lair. And the meal, the rich dates yellowed over with gold dust divine, And the...
Page 97 - And bade me creep past. No ! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers The heroes of old. Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness and cold. For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end, And the elements...
Page 62 - And after April, when May follows And the white-throat builds, and all the swallows ! Hark, where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge Leans to the field and scatters on the clover Blossoms and dewdrops — at the bent spray's edge — That 's the wise thrush : he sings each song twice over Lest you should think he never could recapture The first fine careless rapture...
Page 2 - Her mantle laps Over my lady's wrist too much,' or 'Paint Must never hope to reproduce the faint Half-flush that dies along her throat:' such stuff Was courtesy, she thought, and cause enough 20 For calling up that spot of joy.
Page 102 - Wilt thou trust death or not?' He answered 'Yes: 'Hence with life's pale lure!' That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it: This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it.
Page 23 - The year's at the spring And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn: God's in his heaven — All's right with the world!