Complete Works of Robert Browning: Dramatic lyrics. Dramatic romances. Christmas-eve and Easter-dayT. Y. Crowell, 1898 |
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... brow seemed bright ; I went back , all on fire with joy , And , that same evening , bade the boy Tell me , as lovers should , heart - free , Something to prove his love of me . IX . He told me what he would not tell For hope of heaven ...
... brow seemed bright ; I went back , all on fire with joy , And , that same evening , bade the boy Tell me , as lovers should , heart - free , Something to prove his love of me . IX . He told me what he would not tell For hope of heaven ...
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... brow is all of her . III . Is it too late then , Evelyn Hope ? What , your soul was pure and true , The good stars met in your horoscope , Made you of spirit , fire and dew- And , just because I was thrice as old And our paths in the ...
... brow is all of her . III . Is it too late then , Evelyn Hope ? What , your soul was pure and true , The good stars met in your horoscope , Made you of spirit , fire and dew- And , just because I was thrice as old And our paths in the ...
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... What , not a word for Stefano there , Of brow once prominent and starry , Called Nature's Ape and the world's despair For his peerless painting ? ( See Vasari . ) бо 70 X. There stands the Master . Study , my friends 54 DRAMATIC LYRICS .
... What , not a word for Stefano there , Of brow once prominent and starry , Called Nature's Ape and the world's despair For his peerless painting ? ( See Vasari . ) бо 70 X. There stands the Master . Study , my friends 54 DRAMATIC LYRICS .
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... brow , helped the eyes left too vacant forth- with to remand I 20 To their place what new objects should enter : ' t was Saul as before . I looked up and dared gaze at those eyes , nor was hurt any more Than by slow pallid sunsets in ...
... brow , helped the eyes left too vacant forth- with to remand I 20 To their place what new objects should enter : ' t was Saul as before . I looked up and dared gaze at those eyes , nor was hurt any more Than by slow pallid sunsets in ...
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... remember in glory , ere error had bent The broad brow from the daily communion ; and still , though much spent Be the life and the bearing that front you , the same , God did choose , To receive what a man may waste , desecrate , SAUL . 79.
... remember in glory , ere error had bent The broad brow from the daily communion ; and still , though much spent Be the life and the bearing that front you , the same , God did choose , To receive what a man may waste , desecrate , SAUL . 79.
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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.