 Than many women; you are not over fair, Nor delicate with some exceeding good In the sweet flesh ; you have no much tenderer soul Than love is moulded out of for God's use Who wrought our double need; you are not so choice That in the golden kingdom of...  The queen-mother. Rosamond. 2 plays - Page 165by Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1860Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - English poetry - 1876 - 504 pages
...his personages for the time : such fine language as this, in " Rosamond " : — " I see not 1I1 - h is holier than flesh, Or blood than blood more choicely qualified That scorn should live between them." And this: — " I that have roses in my name, and make All flowers glad to set their color by ; I that... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - English poetry - 1895 - 810 pages
...accomplish'd work in yours. heaven ? I do not use to scorn, stay pure of hate, Seeing how myself am scorn'd unworthily; But anger here so takes me in the throat...should live between them. Better am I Than many women ; yon are not over fair, Nor delicate with some exceeding good In the sweet flesh ; you have no much... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - English poetry - 1895 - 440 pages
...me. Here, let me feel your hair and hands and face ; I see not flesh is holier than flesh, 420 421 Or blood than blood more choicely qualified That scorn...should live between them. Better am I Than many women ; yon are not over fair, NOT delicate with some exceeding good In the sweet flesh ; yon have no much... | |
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