An Introduction to the Study of BrowningCassell, 1886 - 216 páginas |
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Página 130 - s to fight ere the guerdon be gained, The reward of it all. I was ever a fighter, so—one fight more, The best and the last! I would hate that death bandaged my eyes, and forbore, No ! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers The heroes of old,
Página 129 - in, but that harmony should be prized ? Sorrow is hard to bear, and doubt is slow to clear, Each sufferer says his say, his scheme of the weal and woe : But God has a few of us whom he whispers in the ear ; The rest may reason and welcome : 'tis we musicians know.
Página 55 - Is ample warrant that no just pretence Of mine for dowry will be disallowed ; Though his fair daughter's self, as I avowed At starting, is my object. Nay, we'll go Together down, sir. Notice Neptune, though, Taming a sea-horse, thought a rarity, Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me !
Página 98 - Face, my hands fashioned, see it in myself! ' Thou hast no power nor may'st conceive of mine, ' But love I gave thee, with myself to love, ' And thou must love me who have died for thee !' The madman saith He said so : it is strange.
Página 107 - God creates love to reward love, and there is another life to come. " 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. A Woman's Last Word
Página 73 - 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
Página 73 - PARTING AT MORNING. " Round the cape of a sudden came the sea, And the sun looked over the mountain's rim : And straight was a path of gold for him, And the need of a world of men for me.
Página 141 - So, let him wait God's instant men call years ; Meantime hold hard by truth and his great soul, Do out the duty ! Through such souls alone God stooping shows sufficient of His light For us i' the dark to rise by. And I rise.
Página 55 - Oh, sir, she smiled, no doubt, Whene'er I passed her ; but who passed without Much the same smile ? This grew ; I gave commands ; Then all smiles stopped together. There she stands As if alive. Will 't please you rise ? We'll meet The company below, then. I repeat The Count your master's known
Página 93 - That length of convent-wall across the way Holds the trees safer, huddled more inside ; The last monk leaves the garden ; days decrease, And autumn grows, autumn in everything. Eh ? the whole seems to fall into a shape As if I saw alike my work and self And all that I was born to be and do, A twilight-piece.