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... begin- ning of his translations from the early Italians . These must , I think , have been in full career in the first half of 1847 , and may even have begun in 1845. They show a keen sensitive- ness to whatsoever is poetic in the ...
... begin- ning of his translations from the early Italians . These must , I think , have been in full career in the first half of 1847 , and may even have begun in 1845. They show a keen sensitive- ness to whatsoever is poetic in the ...
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... chair , and hid Her face against the back , And took her pearl - girt elbows in Her hands , and could not yet begin , But shuddering , uttered , " Urscelyn ! " Most weak she was ; for as she pressed Her 18 PRINCIPAL POEMS.
... chair , and hid Her face against the back , And took her pearl - girt elbows in Her hands , and could not yet begin , But shuddering , uttered , " Urscelyn ! " Most weak she was ; for as she pressed Her 18 PRINCIPAL POEMS.
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... begin , - Not of such rest as one of these Can share . ) Another rest and ease Along each summer - sated path From its new lord the garden hath , Than that whose spring in blessings ran Which praised the bounteous husbandman , Ere yet ...
... begin , - Not of such rest as one of these Can share . ) Another rest and ease Along each summer - sated path From its new lord the garden hath , Than that whose spring in blessings ran Which praised the bounteous husbandman , Ere yet ...
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... begin To shiver off as lights creep in Past the gauze curtains half drawn - to , And the lamp's doubled shade grows blue , - Your lamp , my Jenny , kept alight , Like a wise virgin's , all one night ! And in the alcove coolly spread ...
... begin To shiver off as lights creep in Past the gauze curtains half drawn - to , And the lamp's doubled shade grows blue , - Your lamp , my Jenny , kept alight , Like a wise virgin's , all one night ! And in the alcove coolly spread ...
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... begins to pour The breath that makes day sweet ? Its eyes invisible Watch till the dial's thin - thrown shade Be born , -yea , till the journeying line be laid Upon the point that wakes the spell , And there in lovelier light than ...
... begins to pour The breath that makes day sweet ? Its eyes invisible Watch till the dial's thin - thrown shade Be born , -yea , till the journeying line be laid Upon the point that wakes the spell , And there in lovelier light than ...
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BALLATA Beatrice beauty behold beneath bitter Blake Blake's blessed breast breath brow CANZONE Cino Cino da Pistoia Corso Donati DANTE ALIGHIERI Dante's dark dead dear death Dino Compagni doth dream eyes face fair fear feet fire Florence Francesco da Barberino gaze Ghibellines God's grace grief Guelfs Guido Cavalcanti hair hand hast hath hear heard heart Hell and Heaven hour King kiss knew lady Lapo Gianni laughed light Lilith lips Little brother look Lord Love's Mary Mother Messer neath night Nineveh o'er once passed picture pity poem poet rose Rossetti round seemed shadow shame sighs Sing Eden Bower Sister Helen sleep song SONNET soul speak speech spirit sweet tears tell thee thine thing thou thought to-day Troy Town turned Twas unto Vita Nuova voice weep Wherefore wind wings words youth
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Page 81 - Tis visible silence, still as the hour-glass. Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragon-fly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky : — So this wing'd hour is dropt to us from above. Oh I clasp we to our hearts, for deathless dower. This close-companioned inarticulate hour When twofold silence was the song of love.
Page 535 - TELL me now in what hidden way is Lady Flora the lovely Roman ? Where's Hipparchia, and where is Thais, Neither of them the fairer woman ? Where is Echo, beheld of no man, Only heard on river and mere, — She whose beauty was more than human ? . . . But where are the snows of yester-year ? Where's Heloise, the learned nun, For whose sake Abeillard, I ween.
Page 5 - And I myself will teach to him, I myself, lying so, The songs I sing here ; which his voice Shall pause in, hushed and slow, And find some knowledge at each pause, Or some new thing to know.
Page 170 - I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; a land of darkness, as darkness itself, and of the shadow of death, without any order and where the light is as darkness.
Page 81 - SILENT NOON. YOUR hands lie open in the long fresh grass, — The finger-points look through like rosy blooms : Your eyes smile peace. The pasture gleams and glooms 'Neath billowing skies that scatter and amass.
Page 66 - Sister Helen, And says that he melts before a flame." "My heart for his pleasure fared the same, Little brother." (O Mother, Mary Mother, Fire at the heart, between Hell and Heaven!) "Here's Keith of Westholm riding fast, Sister Helen, For I know the white plume on the blast.
Page 67 - Oh it's Keith of Keith now that rides fast, Sister Helen, For I know the white hair on the blast." " The short short hour will soon be past, Little brother ! " (O Mother, Mary Mother, Will soon be past, between Hell and Heaven !)
Page 161 - Made by her candle, she had care To work some distance from the bed. Without, there was a cold moon up, Of winter radiance sheer and thin; The hollow halo it was in Was like an icy crystal cup. Through the small room, with subtle sound Of flame, by vents the fireshine drove And reddened. In its dim alcove The mirror shed a clearness round. I had been sitting up some nights, And my tired mind felt weak and blank; Like a sharp strengthening wine it drank The stillness and the broken lights.
Page 58 - The smile rose first, — anon drew nigh The thought: . . . Those heavy wings spread high So sure of flight, which do not fly; That set gaze never on the sky ; Those scriptured flanks it cannot see; Its crown, a brow-contracting load; Its planted feet which trust the sod: . . . (So grew the image as I trod:) O Nineveh, was this thy God, — Thine also, mighty Nineveh?
Page 67 - Oh he prays you, as his heart would rive, Sister Helen, To save his dear son's soul alive." "Fire cannot slay it, it shall thrive. Little brother...