Robert Browning's Poetical Works: Dramatic idyls (First and second series). Jocoseria

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Smith, Elder, & Company, 1889
 

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256 페이지 - This path— how soft to pace ! This May — what magic weather ! Where is the loved one's face? In a dream that loved one's face meets mine, But the house is narrow, the place is bleak Where, outside, rain and wind combine With a furtive ear, if I strive to speak, With a hostile eye at my flushing...
256 페이지 - This path — how soft to pace ! This May — what magic weather ! Where is the loved one's face ? In a dream that loved one's face meets mine, But the house is narrow, the place is bleak Where, outside, rain and wind combine With a furtive ear, if I strive to speak, With a hostile eye at my flushing cheek, With a malice that marks each word, each sign ! O enemy sly and serpentine, Uncoil thee from the waking man ! Do I hold the Past Thus firm and fast Yet doubt, if the Future hold I can? This path...
167 페이지 - WANTING is — what ? Summer redundant, Blueness abundant, — Where is the blot ? Beamy the world, yet a blank all the same, — Framework which waits for a picture to frame : What of the leafage, what of the flower ? Roses embowering with naught they embower ! Come then, complete incompletion, O comer, Pant through the blueness, perfect the summer ! Breathe but one breath Rose-beauty above, And all that was death Grows life, grows love, Grows love ! DONALD. " WILL you hear my story also, — Huge...
25 페이지 - — his word which brought rejoicing indeed. So is Pheidippides happy for ever, — the noble strong man Who could race like a God, bear the face of a God, whom a God loved so well He saw the land saved he had helped to save, and was suffered to tell Such tidings, yet never decline, but, gloriously as he began So to end gloriously — once to shout, thereafter be mute : " Athens is saved ! " — Pheidippides dies in the shout for his meed.
58 페이지 - TRAY Till somebody, prerogatived With reason, reasoned : ' Why he dived, His brain would show us, I should say. " ' John, go and catch — or, if needs be, Purchase — that animal for me ! By vivisection, at expense Of...
197 페이지 - ADAM, LILITH, AND EVE. ONE day it thundered and lightened. Two women, fairly frightened, Sank to their knees, transformed, transfixed, At the feet of the man who sat betwixt ; And " Mercy ! " cried each—" if I tell the truth Of a passage in my youth ! " Said This : " Do you mind the morning I met your love with scorning ? As the worst of the venom left my lips, I thought ' If, despite this lie, he strips The mask from my soul with a kiss — I crawl His slave, — soul, body and all ! ' " Said...
31 페이지 - A boy threw stones : he picked them up and stored them in his vest. So tottered, muttered, mumbled he, till he died, perhaps found rest. " Is there a reason in nature for these hard hearts?
129 페이지 - Peter has the secret! Fair and Good are products (So he said) of Foul and Evil : one must bring to pass the other. Just as poisons grow drugs, steal through sundry odd ducts Doctors name and ultimately issue safe and changed.
53 페이지 - ... foe's attack the camp he sentinels : That he no traitor proved, this and this only tells— Over the corpse of him trod foe to foe's success. Yet — one by one thy crowns torn from thee — thou no less To scare the world, shame God, — livedst ! I hold he saw The unexampled sin, ordained the novel law, Whereof first instrument was first intelligence Found loyal here. I hold that, failing human sense, The very earth had oped, sky fallen, to efface Humanity's new wrong, motherhood's first disgrace...

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