| Arthur Christopher Benson - 1896 - 336 páginas
...temptations of the busy, ordinary world we cannot say. Somehow we have lost our poet. It seems that, Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat. And the singer of an April mood, who might have bloomed year after year... | |
| 1896 - 210 páginas
...a canary bird would sing its head off if it hung up in the hall. THE LOST LEADER. RGBERT BROWNING. JUST for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat — Found the one gift of which fortune bereft us, Lost all the others,... | |
| Robert Browning - 1897 - 104 páginas
...very effigies ' of such a moral and intellectual superiority. " Faithfully yours, "ROBEBT BROWNING." JUST for a handful of silver he left us, Just for...bereft us, Lost all the others she lets us devote ; 5 They, with the gold to give, doled him out silver, So much was theirs who so little allowed : How... | |
| Robert Browning - 1897 - 216 páginas
...(the burgesses voted by common consent) Was no more than his due who brought good news from Ghent. 60 THE LOST LEADER. JUST for a handful of silver he left...in his coat — Found the one gift of which fortune l>ereft us, Lost all the olhers, she lets us devote; They, with the gold to give, doled him out silver,... | |
| Robert Browning - 1897 - 334 páginas
..." Nay I I've better counsellors ; what counsel they? CHORUS. — "Boot, saddle, to horse, and away I" THE LOST LEADER. JUST for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coatFound the one gift of which fortune bereft us, Lost all the others she lets us devote ; They, with... | |
| Robert Browning - 1897 - 308 páginas
...righteous and wise — If 'tis proper Scirocco should vanish In black from the skies ! THE LOST LEADER. I. JUST for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a ribband to stick in his coat— Got the one gift of which fortune bereft us, Lost all the others she... | |
| Henry George - 1898 - 366 páginas
...BY HENRY GEORGE Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a ribbon to stick in his coatFound the one gift of which fortune bereft us, Lost all the others she lets us devote. Blot out his name, then, record one lost soul more, One task more declined, one more footpath untrod,... | |
| Charles Frederick Johnson - 1898 - 312 páginas
...fortunate, Weary of | breath, Rashly im | portunate, Gone to her I death " — is dactyliCj and Browning's Lost Leader — "Just for a | handful of | silver he left us, Just for a | ribbon to | stick in his coat " — is another example. The English hexameter which ends with a trochee... | |
| Charles Frederick Johnson - 1898 - 312 páginas
...fortunate. Weary of | breath, Rashly im | portunate, Gone to her | death "— is dactylic, and Browning's Lost Leader— "Just for a | handful of | silver he | left us, Just for a | ribbon to | stick in his | coat "— is another example. The English hexameter which ends with a... | |
| Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - 568 páginas
...fame ; Walk backward, with averted gaze, And hide the shame ! THE LOST LEADER. BY ROBERT BROWNING. JUST for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat; Found the one gift of which Fortune bereft us, Lost all the others she... | |
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