Complete Works of Robert Browning: Dramatic lyrics. Dramatic romances. Christmas-eve and Easter-dayT. Y. Crowell, 1898 |
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... PORPHYRIA'S LOVER • TOWER CAME " • " CHILDE ROLAND ΤΟ THE DARK CHRISTMAS - EVE AND EASTER - DAY . CHRISTMAS - EVE . · 265 396 275 398 277 398 286 399 EASTER - DAY . · · · 327 403 INTRODUCTION . THE " Dramatic Lyrics , " as finally viii ...
... PORPHYRIA'S LOVER • TOWER CAME " • " CHILDE ROLAND ΤΟ THE DARK CHRISTMAS - EVE AND EASTER - DAY . CHRISTMAS - EVE . · 265 396 275 398 277 398 286 399 EASTER - DAY . · · · 327 403 INTRODUCTION . THE " Dramatic Lyrics , " as finally viii ...
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... unlit lamp and the ungirt loin , Though the end in sight was a vice , I say . You of the virtue ( we issue join ) How strive you ? De te , fabula ! 240 250 PORPHYRIA'S LOVER . 1842 . THE rain set early in 274 DRAMATIC ROMANCES .
... unlit lamp and the ungirt loin , Though the end in sight was a vice , I say . You of the virtue ( we issue join ) How strive you ? De te , fabula ! 240 250 PORPHYRIA'S LOVER . 1842 . THE rain set early in 274 DRAMATIC ROMANCES .
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... Porphyria ; straight She shut the cold out and the storm , And kneeled and made the cheerless grate Blaze up , and all the cottage warm ; Which done , she rose , and from her form Withdrew the dripping cloak and shawl , And laid her ...
... Porphyria ; straight She shut the cold out and the storm , And kneeled and made the cheerless grate Blaze up , and all the cottage warm ; Which done , she rose , and from her form Withdrew the dripping cloak and shawl , And laid her ...
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... Porphyria worshipped me ; surprise Made my heart swell , and still it grew While I debated what to do . That moment she was mine , mine , fair , Perfectly pure and good I found A thing to do , and all her hair In one long yellow string ...
... Porphyria worshipped me ; surprise Made my heart swell , and still it grew While I debated what to do . That moment she was mine , mine , fair , Perfectly pure and good I found A thing to do , and all her hair In one long yellow string ...
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... Porphyria's Lover relates how , by strangling Porphyria with her own yellow hair , the lover seized and preserved the moment of perfect love when , pure and good , Por- phyria left the world she could not forego for his sake , and came ...
... Porphyria's Lover relates how , by strangling Porphyria with her own yellow hair , the lover seized and preserved the moment of perfect love when , pure and good , Por- phyria left the world she could not forego for his sake , and came ...
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Page 66 - HOME-THOUGHTS, FROM THE SEA NOBLY, nobly Cape Saint Vincent to the Northwest died away ; Sunset ran, one glorious blood-red, reeking into Cadiz Bay ; Bluish 'mid the burning water, full in face Trafalgar lay; In the dimmest North-east distance dawned Gibraltar grand and gray ; " Here and here did England help me : how can I help England...
Page 35 - I loved you, Evelyn, all the while ! My heart seemed full as it could hold ; There was place and to spare for the frank young smile, And the red young mouth, and the hair's young gold. So, hush, — I will give you this leaf to keep : See, I shut it inside the sweet cold hand ! There, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understand.
Page 143 - by design, for never read Strangers like you that pictured countenance, The depth and passion of its earnest glance, But to myself they turned (since none puts by The curtain I have drawn for you, but I...
Page 5 - Good speed!" cried the 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.
Page 294 - I found God there, his visible power; Yet felt in my heart, amid all its sense Of the power, an equal evidence That his love, there too, was the nobler dower. For the loving worm within its clod, Were diviner than a loveless god Amid his worlds, I will dare to say.
Page 29 - 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' the slushy sand. Then a mile of warm sea-scented beach; Three fields to cross till a farm appears; A tap at the pane, the quick sharp scratch And blue spurt of a lighted match. And a voice less loud, thro' its joys and fears, Than the two hearts beating each to each!
Page 216 - There was a rustling that seemed like a bustling Of merry crowds justling at pitching and hustling, Small feet were pattering, wooden shoes clattering, Little hands clapping and little tongues chattering, And like fowls in a farmyard when barley is scattering, Out came the children running : All the little boys and girls, With rosy cheeks and flaxen curls, And sparkling eyes and teeth like pearls, Tripping and skipping ran merrily after The wonderful music with shouting and laughter.
Page 141 - 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 213 - Smiling first a little smile, As if he knew what magic slept In his quiet pipe the while; Then, like a musical adept, To blow the pipe his lips he wrinkled, And green and blue his sharp eyes twinkled, Like a...
Page 211 - Come in!" the Mayor cried, looking bigger: And in did come the strangest figure! His queer long coat from heel to head Was half of yellow and half of red, And he himself was tall and thin, With sharp blue eyes, each like a pin, And light loose hair, yet swarthy skin, No tuft on cheek nor beard on chin, But lips where smiles went out and in; There was no guessing his kith and kin: And nobody could enough admire The tall man and his quaint attire.