The Princess: A MedleyHoughton, Mifflin, 1890 - 190 pages |
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Page 45
... knew you at the first ; tho ' you have grown You scarce have alter'd : I am sad and glad To see you , Florian . I give thee to death , My brother ! it was duty spoke , not I. My needful seeming harshness , pardon it . Our mother , is ...
... knew you at the first ; tho ' you have grown You scarce have alter'd : I am sad and glad To see you , Florian . I give thee to death , My brother ! it was duty spoke , not I. My needful seeming harshness , pardon it . Our mother , is ...
Page 56
... knew my father , but she says ( God help her ! ) she was wedded to a fool ; And still she rail'd against the state of things . She had the care of Lady Ida's youth , And from the Queen's decease she brought her up . But when your sister ...
... knew my father , but she says ( God help her ! ) she was wedded to a fool ; And still she rail'd against the state of things . She had the care of Lady Ida's youth , And from the Queen's decease she brought her up . But when your sister ...
Page 58
... knew : Her answer was , " Leave me to deal with that . " I spoke of war to come and many deaths , And she replied , her duty was to speak , And duty duty , clear of consequences . I grew discouraged , Sir ; but since I knew No rock so ...
... knew : Her answer was , " Leave me to deal with that . " I spoke of war to come and many deaths , And she replied , her duty was to speak , And duty duty , clear of consequences . I grew discouraged , Sir ; but since I knew No rock so ...
Page 60
... knew him - could have wish'd-- - ' Our king expects was there no precontract ? There is no truer - hearted - ah , you seem All he prefigured , and he could not see The bird of passage flying south but long'd To follow surely , if your ...
... knew him - could have wish'd-- - ' Our king expects was there no precontract ? There is no truer - hearted - ah , you seem All he prefigured , and he could not see The bird of passage flying south but long'd To follow surely , if your ...
Page 71
... with alien lips , And knew not what they meant ; for still my voice Rang false but smiling , ' Not for thee , ' she said , ' O Bulbul , any rose of Gulistan So 90 100 Shall burst her veil ; marsh - divers , rather A MEDLEY . 71.
... with alien lips , And knew not what they meant ; for still my voice Rang false but smiling , ' Not for thee , ' she said , ' O Bulbul , any rose of Gulistan So 90 100 Shall burst her veil ; marsh - divers , rather A MEDLEY . 71.
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Page 125 - ... torrent dance thee down To find him in the valley ; let the wild Lean-headed Eagles yelp alone, and leave The monstrous ledges there to slope, and spill Their thousand wreaths of dangling water-smoke, That like a broken purpose waste in air : So waste not thou ; but come ; for all the vales Await thee ; azure pillars of the hearth Arise to thee ; the children call, and I Thy shepherd pipe, and sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice,- but every sound is sweet ; Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro'...
Page 65 - Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more.
Page 127 - For woman is not undevelopt man, But diverse : could we make her as the man, Sweet love were slain : his dearest bond is this, Not like to like, but like in difference. Yet in the long years liker must they grow ; The man be more of woman, she of man...
Page 123 - Now droops the milk-white peacock like a ghost, And like a ghost she glimmers on to me. ' Now lies the Earth all Danae to the stars, And all thy heart lies open unto me.
Page 65 - Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, That brings our friends up from the underworld ; Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge ; So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
Page 158 - Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star...
Page 49 - Sweet and low, sweet and low, Wind of the western sea, Low, low, breathe and blow. Wind of the western sea! Over the rolling waters go, Come from the dying moon, and blow, Blow him again to me; While my little one, while my pretty one, sleeps.
Page 132 - For me, the genial day, the happy crowd, The sport half-science, fill me with a faith. This fine old world of ours is but a child Yet in the go-cart. Patience ! Give it time To learn its limbs : there is a hand that guides.
Page 35 - As thro' the land at eve we went, And pluck'd the ripen'd ears, We fell out, my wife and I, O we fell out I know not why, And kiss'd again with tears. And blessings on the falling out That all the more endears, When we fall out with those we love And kiss again with tears ! For when we came where lies the child We lost in other years, There above the little grave, O there above the little grave, We kiss'd again with tears.
Page 127 - ... man be more of woman, she of man; He gain in sweetness and in moral height, Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world; She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care...