Poems: A blot in the 'scutcheonTicknor, Reed and Fields, 1850 |
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Σελίδα 9
... needs be uppermost with one Who comes , like me , with the bare leave to ask , In weighed and measured unimpassioned words , A gift , which , if as calmly ' tis denied , He must withdraw , content upon his cheek , Despair within his ...
... needs be uppermost with one Who comes , like me , with the bare leave to ask , In weighed and measured unimpassioned words , A gift , which , if as calmly ' tis denied , He must withdraw , content upon his cheek , Despair within his ...
Σελίδα 18
... dame Whose garter slipped down at the famous dance ! [ Goes . Mil . Is she can she be really gone at last ? My heart - I shall not reach the window ! Needs Must I have sinned much , so to suffer ! 18 A BLOT IN THE ' SCUTCHEON .
... dame Whose garter slipped down at the famous dance ! [ Goes . Mil . Is she can she be really gone at last ? My heart - I shall not reach the window ! Needs Must I have sinned much , so to suffer ! 18 A BLOT IN THE ' SCUTCHEON .
Σελίδα 32
... needs must circumvent and practise with , " Entrap by policies , if you would worm " The truth out — and that one is - Mildred ! " There - reasoning is thrown away on it ! There- Prove she's unchaste .. why you may after prove That ...
... needs must circumvent and practise with , " Entrap by policies , if you would worm " The truth out — and that one is - Mildred ! " There - reasoning is thrown away on it ! There- Prove she's unchaste .. why you may after prove That ...
Σελίδα 40
... need— " When every tongue is praising you , I'll join " The praisers ' chorus - when you're hemmed about " With lives between you and detraction - lives " To be laid down if a rude voice , rash eye , 66 Rough hand should violate the ...
... need— " When every tongue is praising you , I'll join " The praisers ' chorus - when you're hemmed about " With lives between you and detraction - lives " To be laid down if a rude voice , rash eye , 66 Rough hand should violate the ...
Σελίδα 58
... needs no code to keep its grace from stain , But bids the vilest worm that turns on it Desist and be forgiven , —I — forgive not , But bless you , Thorold , from my soul of souls ! [ Falls on his neck . There ! do not think too much ...
... needs no code to keep its grace from stain , But bids the vilest worm that turns on it Desist and be forgiven , —I — forgive not , But bless you , Thorold , from my soul of souls ! [ Falls on his neck . There ! do not think too much ...
Συχνά εμφανιζόμενοι όροι και φράσεις
Anael arms Austin bezants blood Brac Braccio breast breath brow cheek Chiappino dare dead deed Djabal DOMIZIA doubt dream Druses Duke Enter eyes face Faenza faith Florence Florentines Gerard give God's gold Guards Guen Guendolen guilders Hakeem hand head hear heard heart Heaven hold Jacynth keep Khalil knew Lady laugh leave Lebanon lips live look Lord Tresham Loys Lucca Luit Luitolfo Luria Masaccio Mertoun Mildred neath never night Nuncio o'er Ogni once past Pisa praise Prefect pride Provost Puccio round seemed shame silent soul speak spoke stand stood sure sure as fate sword tell thee there's Theseus thine Thorold thou art thought thro Tiburzio Tresh tribe trust truth turn twas Venice voice What's word wrong
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Σελίδα 320 - Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood up in the stirrup, leaned, patted his ear, Called my Roland his pet-name, my horse without peer; Clapped my hands, laughed and sang, any noise, bad or good, Till at length into Aix Roland galloped and stood. And all I remember is, friends flocking round As I...
Σελίδα 312 - You should have heard the Hamelin people Ringing the bells till they rocked the steeple. 'Go,' cried the Mayor, 'and get long poles! Poke out the nests and block up the holes! Consult with carpenters and builders, And leave in our town not even a trace Of the rats ! ' — when suddenly, up the face Of the Piper perked in the market-place, With a 'First, if you please, my thousand guilders!
Σελίδα 319 - So we were left galloping, Joris and I, Past Looz and past Tongres, no cloud in the sky; The broad sun above laughed a pitiless laugh, 'Neath our feet broke the brittle, bright stubble like chaff; Till over by Dalhem a dome-spire sprang white, And "Gallop," gasped Joris, "for Aix is in sight!
Σελίδα 346 - Old Gandolf with his paltry onion-stone, Put me where I may look at him! True peach, Rosy and flawless: how I earned the prize! Draw close: that conflagration of my church — What then? So much was saved if aught were missed!
Σελίδα 318 - ... other; we kept the great pace Neck by neck, stride by stride, never changing our place; I turned in my saddle and made its girths tight, Then shortened each stirrup, and set the pique right, Rebuckled the cheek-strap, chained slacker the bit, Nor galloped less steadily Roland a whit.
Σελίδα 258 - Fra Pandolf" by design, for never read Strangers like you that pictured countenance, The depth and passion of its earnest glance, But to myself they turned (since none puts by The curtain I have drawn for you, but I...
Σελίδα 266 - Then off there flung in smiling joy, And held himself erect By just his horse's mane, a boy: You hardly could suspect — (So tight he kept his lips compressed, Scarce any blood came through) You looked twice ere you saw his breast Was all but shot in two.
Σελίδα 306 - HAMELIN Town's in Brunswick, By famous Hanover city; The river Weser, deep and wide, Washes its wall on the southern side; A pleasanter spot you never spied ; But, when begins my ditty, Almost five hundred years ago, To see the townsfolk suffer so From vermin, was a pity.
Σελίδα 310 - Smiling first a little smile, As if he knew what magic slept In his quiet pipe the while; Then, like a musical adept, To blow the pipe his lips he wrinkled, And green and blue his sharp eyes twinkled, Like a...
Σελίδα 319 - Aix" — for one heard the quick wheeze Of her chest, saw the stretched neck and staggering knees, And sunk tail, and horrible heave of the flank, As down on her haunches she shuddered and sank.