Pomegranates from an English Garden: A Selection from the Poems of Robert BrowningChautauqua Press, 1885 - 137 páginas |
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... steady phalanx falter ? To the rescue , at the need , The clown was ploughing Persia , clearing Greek earth of weed , As he routed through the Sakian and rooted up the Mede . But the deed done , battle won , -nowhere to 16 ECHETLOS.
... steady phalanx falter ? To the rescue , at the need , The clown was ploughing Persia , clearing Greek earth of weed , As he routed through the Sakian and rooted up the Mede . But the deed done , battle won , -nowhere to 16 ECHETLOS.
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... Earth's foundations so , When all the morning - stars together sang . " The tower is one built by Lord Dufferin , in memory of his mother Helen , Countess of Gifford , on one of his estates in Ireland . The Greek Beauty " is , of course ...
... Earth's foundations so , When all the morning - stars together sang . " The tower is one built by Lord Dufferin , in memory of his mother Helen , Countess of Gifford , on one of his estates in Ireland . The Greek Beauty " is , of course ...
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... earth content . ( He did God's will ; to him , all one If on the earth or in the sun . ) God said , " A praise is in mine ear ; " There is no doubt in it , no fear : " So sing old worlds , and so " New worlds that from my footstool go ...
... earth content . ( He did God's will ; to him , all one If on the earth or in the sun . ) God said , " A praise is in mine ear ; " There is no doubt in it , no fear : " So sing old worlds , and so " New worlds that from my footstool go ...
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... earth or in the sun " ( the Angel ) . The poem is so full of exquisite things , that only a few can be noted . The value of the " little human praise " to God Himself ( distich 12 ) , all the dearer because of the doubts and fears in it ...
... earth or in the sun " ( the Angel ) . The poem is so full of exquisite things , that only a few can be noted . The value of the " little human praise " to God Himself ( distich 12 ) , all the dearer because of the doubts and fears in it ...
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... earth with my weight And persistence of hate ; And he lay , would not moan , would not curse , As his lot might be worse . III . " Were the object less mean , would he stand " At the swing of my hand ! " For obscurity helps him , and ...
... earth with my weight And persistence of hate ; And he lay , would not moan , would not curse , As his lot might be worse . III . " Were the object less mean , would he stand " At the swing of my hand ! " For obscurity helps him , and ...
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Abib Abt Vogler angel beauty borage brain breath brow Browning Browning's chapel CHARLES G CHAUTAUQUA PRESS chord Christ Christian Christmas-Eve Dante dead death dream earth earthly Easter-Day Evelyn Hope exquisite eyes face fain faith Fano fear fifty poems fire flesh Flower follows French Revolution galloped Ghent gift give glory God's gone Göttingen Greek fire Guido Reni hand hard head heard heart heaven HELEN'S TOWER human illustration infinite John Keats Karshish Lazarus life's live look man's mind never night o'er once paint passage perfect poem poet praise ROBERT BROWNING round Rudel Saul seems sight singing song Sordello soul soul's stand stanza star stood strange thee Theocrite things thou thought touch true truth turn twixt utter Vespasian voice volume whelk wonder words
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Página 34 - JUST for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat — Found the one gift of which fortune bereft us, Lost all the others, she lets us devote...
Página 12 - Nobly, nobly Cape Saint Vincent to the North-West 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...
Página 48 - Fear death? — to feel the fog in my throat, The mist in my face, When the snows begin, and the blasts denote I am nearing the place, The power of the night, the press of the storm, The post of the foe; Where he stands, the Arch Fear in a visible form, Yet the strong man must go: For the journey is done and the summit attained, And the barriers fall, Though a battle's to fight ere the guerdon be gained, The reward of it all.
Página 63 - But here is the finger of God, a flash of the will that can, Existent behind all laws : that made them, and, lo, they are ! And I know not if, save in this, such gift be allowed to man, That out of three sounds he frame, not a fourth sound, but a star.
Página 14 - So, we were left galloping, Joris and I, Past Looz and past Tongres, no cloud in the sky; The broad sun above laughed a pitiless laugh, 'Neath our feet broke the brittle bright stubble like chaff; Till over by Dalhem a dome-spire sprang white, And "Gallop," gasped Joris, "for Aix is in sight!
Página 34 - Life's night begins: let him never come back to us! There would be doubt, hesitation and pain, Forced praise on our part — the glimmer of twilight, Never glad confident morning again!
Página 83 - Would I suffer for him that I love? So wouldst thou — so wilt thou ! So shall crown thee the topmost, ineffablest, uttermost crown — And thy love fill infinitude wholly, nor leave up nor down One spot for the creature to stand in! It is by no breath, Turn of eye, wave of hand, that salvation joins issue with death...
Página 45 - It was not her time to love ; beside, Her life had many a hope and aim, Duties enough and little cares, And now was quiet, now astir, Till God's hand beckoned unawares, — And the sweet white brow is all of her.
Página 86 - And thus looking within and around me, I ever renew (With that stoop of the soul which in bending upraises it too) The submission of man's nothing-perfect to God's all-complete, As by each new obeisance in spirit, I climb to his feet.
Página 11 - Hark, where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge Leans to the field and scatters on the clover Blossoms and dewdrops — at the bent spray's edge — That 's the wise thrush ; he sings each song twice over Lest you should think he never could recapture The first fine careless rapture...