Poet Lore, Volume 32Writer's Center, 1921 - Drama |
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... thing to know . ( He seats himself in the arm - chair . ) Adelaide ( Listens ) .- I believe the paper is here now . ( She goes out into the vestibule . Then she comes back with a newspaper which she gives to ULFSTJERNA . ) Adelaide ...
... thing to know . ( He seats himself in the arm - chair . ) Adelaide ( Listens ) .- I believe the paper is here now . ( She goes out into the vestibule . Then she comes back with a newspaper which she gives to ULFSTJERNA . ) Adelaide ...
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... thing to know ! Adelaide . What's the matter now , then ? Ulfstjerna . I say it may be a good thing to know what happens behind my back . Adelaide . - What do you mean ? Ulfstjerna . I mean the sad fact that my own people try to ...
... thing to know ! Adelaide . What's the matter now , then ? Ulfstjerna . I say it may be a good thing to know what happens behind my back . Adelaide . - What do you mean ? Ulfstjerna . I mean the sad fact that my own people try to ...
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... thing . At least not nowa- days when the sons- Adelaide ( Trying to turn the conversation ) .— What does he write ? Is he getting along well ? Ulfstjerna . - Huh , Brandt is well taken care of . He is a politician , he is . And besides ...
... thing . At least not nowa- days when the sons- Adelaide ( Trying to turn the conversation ) .— What does he write ? Is he getting along well ? Ulfstjerna . - Huh , Brandt is well taken care of . He is a politician , he is . And besides ...
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... thing to a - girl ! Agda ( Rises ) .- Oh shame on you Helge - shame - shame ! I who I hate them , hate them ! Helge . Do you dare to listen to it ? Agda ( Stamps her foot on the floor ) .- I want to know it - I want to ! Helge ( Seizes ...
... thing to a - girl ! Agda ( Rises ) .- Oh shame on you Helge - shame - shame ! I who I hate them , hate them ! Helge . Do you dare to listen to it ? Agda ( Stamps her foot on the floor ) .- I want to know it - I want to ! Helge ( Seizes ...
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... ! It is immortality I want - now- now ! I can't wait ! - Agda ( Rises ) .— You're going to be a hero ! Helge ( Rises also ) .— Do you think so ? Perhaps they will for- get me ! Then is it such a great thing TOR HEDBERG 21.
... ! It is immortality I want - now- now ! I can't wait ! - Agda ( Rises ) .— You're going to be a hero ! Helge ( Rises also ) .— Do you think so ? Perhaps they will for- get me ! Then is it such a great thing TOR HEDBERG 21.
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actors Adelaide Agda allegory Anna Anna.-Yes Bastien beautiful believe Bergamin Borga Capacho Chanfalla child Comedy comes Countess course Crown Cusano dear Dino Divine Comedy Doctor door drama dream Earnestina eyes father Faun feel Gerald Giampiero Giovannino give Glimming goes Gypsy hand happy Harriet heard heart Helge Hidoux John Strong Newberry kiss lady laugh Lennart light live looks Lord Wang Madame Cordier Maid Malcolm Marjory matter mother never night Pasquinot pause Percinet perhaps Peter Pierrette Pierrot play poems Poet Princess Ramon Ramsay Reback rises Rostand scene Second Blind Ségard singing Sir Chen sits Sky Father smiles song Songs of Bilitis soul stands Straforel sure Sylvette symbolism talk tell There's Thérèse thing thou thought TOR HEDBERG Ulfstjerna Ulfstjerna.-Yes Uncle understand wait window woman Yiddish theatre young YOUNG GODS
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Page 478 - It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale ; look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops; I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
Page 91 - ... What do I fear? Myself? There's none else by. Richard loves Richard: that is, I am I. Is there a murderer here?
Page 260 - Is it so small a thing To have enjoy'd the sun, To have lived light in the spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done...
Page 91 - My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain.
Page 415 - We are the fools of time and terror : Days Steal on us and steal from us ; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die. In all the days of this detested yoke — This vital weight upon the struggling heart, Which sinks with sorrow, or beats quick with pain, Or...
Page 91 - Give me another horse, — bind up my wounds, — Have mercy, Jesu ! — Soft ! I did but dream. — 0 coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me ! — The lights burn blue. — It is now dead midnight. Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh. What, do I fear myself ? there's none else by : Richard loves Richard ; that is, I am I. Is there a murderer here ? No ; — yes, I am : Then fly. What, from myself ? Great reason why, — Lest I revenge.
Page 91 - I shall despair. — There is no creature loves me ; And, if I die, no soul will pity me : — Nay, wherefore should they?
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Page 260 - And then we shall unwillingly return Back to this meadow of calamity, This uncongenial place, this human life; And in our individual human state Go through the sad probation all again, To see if we will poise our life at last, To see if we will now at last be true To our own only true, deep-buried selves, Being one with which we are one with the whole world...
Page 260 - I say: Fear not! Life still Leaves human effort scope ! But, since life teems with ill, Nurse no extravagant hope; Because thou must not dream, thou need'st not then despair ! A long pause.