 As for Venice and her people, merely born to bloom and drop, 'Here on earth they bore their fruitage, mirth and folly were the crop: ' What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop? "Dust and ashes!  Faith in a Future Life: (foundations) - Page 187by Alfred Wilhelm Martin - 1916 - 202 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Browning - 1830 - 426 pages
...people, merely born t£ bloom and drop, Here on earth they bore their fruitage7"rrnrth and folly~were the crop : What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop? " Dust and ashes ! " So you creak it, and I want the heart to scold. Dear dead women, with such hair,... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1896 - 496 pages
...Butterflies may dread extinction — you'll not die, it cannot be ! As for Venice and its people, merely born to bloom and drop, Here on earth they bore their...soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop ? •"Dust and ashes!" So you creak it, and I want the heart to scold. Dear dead women, with such hair,... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1856 - 386 pages
...may dread extinction,' — you'll not die, it cannot be ! 14. " As for Venice and its people, merely born to bloom and drop, Here on earth they bore their...soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop ? 15. " Dust and ashes ! " So you creak it, and I want the heart to scold. Dear dead women, with such... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1863 - 430 pages
...Butterflies may dread extinction — you'll not die, it cannot be ! "As for Venice and its people, merely born to bloom, and drop, Here on earth they bore their...soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop ? XV. ' ' Dust and ashes ! " So you creak it, and I want the heart to scold. Dear dead women, with... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1863 - 360 pages
...may dread extinction, — you'll not die, it cannot be ! 14. " As for Venice and its people, merely born to bloom and drop, Here on earth they bore their...of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to 15. " Dust and ashes ! " So you creak it, and I want the heart to scold. Dear dead women, with such... | |
 | Sir John Skelton - 1865 - 398 pages
...play with souls, And matter enough to save one's own ;— or — As for Venice and its people, merely born to bloom and drop, Here on earth they bore their...was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop? — are the parting shafts that cover his retreat. There is never, however, any foolish levity in Browning's... | |
 | Anne Maria Hampton Brewster - American fiction - 1866 - 456 pages
...by, and point with red, dripping finger to their poison bowls and headsman's block and axe ! " merely born to bloom and drop, Here on earth they bore their...soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop ? ' Dust and ashes ' ! so you creak it, and I want the heart to scold. Dear dead women, with such hair,... | |
 | Gerald Massey - Sonnets, English - 1866 - 624 pages
...reputation should be buried with her body, as one of those, of whom the Poet sings, who were ' Merely born to bloom and drop ; Here on earth they bore their...soul was left I wonder, when the kissing had to stop ? " Dust a1ul ashes" so you creak it, and I want the heart to scold. Dear, dead women, with such hair,... | |
 | Anne Maria Hampton Brewster - American fiction - 1866 - 468 pages
...and point with red, dripping finger to their poison bowls and headsman's block and axe ! " merely bom to bloom and drop, Here on earth they bore their fruitage,...soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop ? ' Dust and ashes ' ! so you creak it, and I want the heart to scold. Dear dead women, with such hair,... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1869 - 916 pages
...answered the lunatic with a wonderful quickness as we walked on. ' As for Venice and its people, merely born to bloom and drop, Here on earth they bore their...was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?' Or we float upon the canals of a later Venice, city of mystery and marvel, while the gondolier sings... | |
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