God's messenger thro' the close wood screen Plunged and replunged his weapon at a venture, Feeling for guilty thee and me: then broke The thunder like a whole sea overhead — Sebald. Poems - Page 181by Robert Browning - 1864Full view - About this book
| 1845 - 1074 pages
...this storm : — " Buried in woods we lay, you recollect ; Swift ran the searching tempest over head, And ever and anon some bright white shaft Burnt thro'...— then broke The thunder like a whole sea overhead — " • * * * " Bind it thrice about my brow, Crown me your queen— your spirit's arbitress Magnificent... | |
| 1850 - 538 pages
...Pippa Passes : — " Buried in woods we lay, you recollect ; Swift ran the searching tempest overhead ; And ever and anon' some bright white shaft Burnt thro''...screen Plunged and replunged his weapon at a venture, . • .it Feeling for guilty thee and me ; then toolce , , : •. The thunder like a whole sea overhead,",... | |
| 1856 - 684 pages
...Buried in woods we lay, you recollect; Swift nm tho scorching tempest overhead ; And ever and auoli some bright white shaft Burnt thro' the pine-tree...here burnt and there, As if God's messenger thro' tho close wooJBcroon Plunged and replunged his weapon at • venture, Feeling for guilty theo and tne... | |
| 1856 - 710 pages
...Oui. Buried iu woods wo lay, you recollect ; Swift run the scorching tempest overhead ; And ever nnd anon some bright white shaft Burnt thro' the pine-tree roof— here burnt and there. As if ood'a messenger thro' the close woodscreen Plunged and replunged his weapon at à venture, Feeling... | |
| 1856 - 704 pages
...the scorching tempest overhead ; And ever and anon some bright white shaft Burnt thro' the pino-treo roof— -here burnt and there. As if God's messenger thro' the close wo»dscreen Plunged and roplunged his weapon at a venture, Feeling for guilty theo and me : then broko... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 872 pages
...white shaft Burned through the pine- tree roof, here burned and there, As if God's messenger through the close wood screen Plunged and replunged his weapon...then broke The thunder like a whole sea overhead. The swift gathering of the storm, the hurtling shafts of fire, the dreadful pause, and then the sea-vast... | |
| 1865 - 620 pages
...bright white shaft Burut through the pine-tree roof, here burnt and there, As if God's messenger through the close wood screen Plunged and replunged his weapon at a venture, Feeling for guilty thec and me." This gives precisely the effect on the mind produced by vivid forked lightning. The sight... | |
| Robert Browning - 1863 - 430 pages
...it came ! Otti. Buried in woods we lay, you recollect ; Swift ran the searching tempest overhead ; And ever and anon some bright white shaft Burnt thro'...roof, here burnt and there. As if God's messenger through the close wood-screen Plunged and replunged his weapon at a venture, Feeling for guilty thee... | |
| Robert Browning - 1863 - 394 pages
...How it came ! Otti. Buried in woods we lay, you recollect; Swift ran the searching tempest overhead; And ever and anon some bright white shaft Burnt thro' the pine-tree roof—here burnt and there, As if God's messenger thro ? the close wood screen Plunged and replunged... | |
| Sir John Skelton - 1865 - 398 pages
...white shaft Burnt through the pine-tree roof — here burnt and there, As if God's messenger through the close wood screen Plunged and replunged his weapon...then broke The thunder like a whole sea overhead. Earer, purer, and loftier than any of the others is that exercise of the faculty which dispenses with... | |
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