A Selection from the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett BrowningSmith, Elder, 1884 |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 26
Página 13
... turned my childish face , With an innocent appealing For the secret of the place To the trees , which surely knew it in partaking of the grace . Where's no foot of human creature How could reach a human hand ? And if this be work of ...
... turned my childish face , With an innocent appealing For the secret of the place To the trees , which surely knew it in partaking of the grace . Where's no foot of human creature How could reach a human hand ? And if this be work of ...
Página 17
... turned my mortal countenance . I affirm that , since I lost it , Never bower has seemed so fair ; Never garden - creeper crossed it With so deft and brave an air , Never bird sung in the summer , as I saw and heard them there . Day by ...
... turned my mortal countenance . I affirm that , since I lost it , Never bower has seemed so fair ; Never garden - creeper crossed it With so deft and brave an air , Never bird sung in the summer , as I saw and heard them there . Day by ...
Página 29
... turned anon , For dread was the woe in the face so young , And wild was the silent geste that flung Casque , sword , to earth , as the boy down - sprung And stood - alone , alone . He clenched his hands as if to hold His soul's great ...
... turned anon , For dread was the woe in the face so young , And wild was the silent geste that flung Casque , sword , to earth , as the boy down - sprung And stood - alone , alone . He clenched his hands as if to hold His soul's great ...
Página 71
... turned her face in going , thus , she drew me on to love her , And to worship the divineness of the smile hid in her eyes . For her eyes alone smile constantly ; her lips have serious sweetness , And her front is calm , the dimple ...
... turned her face in going , thus , she drew me on to love her , And to worship the divineness of the smile hid in her eyes . For her eyes alone smile constantly ; her lips have serious sweetness , And her front is calm , the dimple ...
Página 77
... turned broadly to the glory of the stars . We are gods by our own reck'ning , and may well shut up the temples , And wield on , amid the incense - steam , the thunder of our cars . " For we throw out acclamations of self - thanking ...
... turned broadly to the glory of the stars . We are gods by our own reck'ning , and may well shut up the temples , And wield on , amid the incense - steam , the thunder of our cars . " For we throw out acclamations of self - thanking ...
Términos y frases comunes
angels answer art thou beloved beside blessed blush bower breath bride brown rosary calm cheek child cold crown Cyclops dark Dear death deep dream dreamlight drop earth Emperor Evermore face fair Faunus flowers Gaeta gazing GEORGE SAND God's grave hair hand hath head hear heard heart heaven Italy kiss knee lady laughed light lips little birds sang look love thee love's mother mouth Naiads Napoleon Neath never night nightingales noble o'er Onora pale Pan is dead poet praise pray purple ride river Romagnole rose Rose-trees round scorn sigh silence sing sleep smile song soul spake speak spirit stand steed stood strong sweet Sweetest eyes tears Theocritus thine thing thou art thou hast thought thrushes Toll slowly tree tremble truth Tuscan Twixt voice ween weep wilt thou wind word young
Pasajes populares
Página 202 - Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
Página 144 - we are weary, And we cannot run or leap; If we cared for any meadows, it were merely To drop down in them and sleep. Our knees tremble sorely in the stooping, We fall upon our faces, trying to go; And, underneath our heavy eyelids drooping, The reddest flower would look as pale as snow. For, all day, we drag our burden tiring, Through the coal-dark, underground; Or, all day, we drive the wheels of iron 10 In the factories, round and round.
Página 145 - Who is God that He should hear us, While the rushing of the iron wheels is stirred? When we sob aloud, the human creatures near us Pass by, hearing not, or answer not a word. And we hear not (for the wheels in their resounding) Strangers speaking at the door: Is it likely God, with angels singing round Him, Hears our weeping any more? "Two words, indeed, of praying we remember, And at midnight's hour of harm, 'Our Father', looking upward in the chamber, We say softly for a charm.
Página 146 - Let them weep ! let them weep ! They look up with their pale and sunken faces, And their look is dread to see, For they mind you of their angels in high places, With eyes turned on Deity.
Página 187 - IF thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only. Do not say " I love her for her smile — her look — her way Of speaking gently, — for a trick of thought That falls in well with mine, and certes brought A sense of pleasant ease on such a day...
Página 175 - WITH stammering lips and insufficient sound, I strive and struggle to deliver right That music of my nature, day and night With dream and thought and feeling, interwound : And inly answering all the senses round With octaves of a mystic depth and height, Which step out grandly to the infinite From the dark edges of the sensual ground...
Página 145 - Is it likely God, with angels singing round him, Hears our weeping any more ? "Two words, indeed, of praying we remember. And at midnight's hour of harm, 'Our Father,' looking upward in the chamber, We say softly for a charm. We know no other words except 'Our Father...
Página 264 - He tore out a reed, the great god Pan, From the deep cool bed of the river : The limpid water turbidly ran, And the broken lilies a-dying lay, And the dragon-fly had fled away, Ere he brought it out of the river. III. High on the shore sat the great god Pan...
Página 143 - We looked into the pit prepared to take her : Was no room for any work in the close clay ! From the sleep wherein she lieth none will wake her, Crying, " Get up, little Alice ! it is day.
Página 142 - The young lambs are bleating in the meadows, The young birds are chirping in the nest, The young fawns are playing with the shadows, The young flowers are blowing...