Asolando: Fancies and FactsHoughton, Mifflin, 1890 - 114 páginas |
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alack all's Artemisia Asolo BAD DREAMS beast Bicé blame bliss boasts Breath brow Cæsar Clara Crown 8vo Dost doubt drudge escape eyes face fact fancies fare Father fear FERISHTAH'S FANCIES fiend flesh flower full in play gained gallows God's Good's grace guess heart and soul heaven and earth Iliad JOCOSERIA Jupiter kiss knew laughed life's lips lord love's Lucius Varius Rufus man's match mind Muckle-mouth Muckle-mouth Meg needs never nowise o'er once paint passion past pearl perfection plain POEMS poor Pope praise prove queen quoth rapture Rephan rest rightly Rome rose Rosny Saint scarce silence Sixtus sleep sloe smile somehow soul's spoil stand star strife sure sweet tell thee There's thine things thou thought toils Trust truth turn Venice Viterbo wake Whereat wife woman wonder word worth wringing wrong
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Página 113 - AT the midnight in the silence of the sleep-time, When you set your fancies free, Will they pass to where — by death, fools think, imprisoned — Low he lies who once so loved you, whom you loved so, — Pity me ? Oh to love so, be so loved, yet so mistaken!
Página 114 - One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake. No, at noonday in the bustle of man's work-time Greet the unseen with a cheer! Bid him forward, breast and back as either should be, "Strive and thrive!" cry "Speed, — fight on, fare ever There as here!
Página 3 - No, for the purged ear apprehends Earth's import, not the eye late dazed. The Voice said, "Call my works thy friends! At Nature dost thou shrink amazed? God is it who transcends.
Página 32 - THE POPE AND THE NET WHAT, he on whom our voices unanimously ran, Made Pope at our last Conclave? Full low his life began : His father earned the daily bread as just a fisherman. So much the more his boy minds book, gives proof of mother-wit, Becomes first Deacon, and then Priest, then Bishop: see him sit No less than Cardinal ere long, while no one cries "Unfit!
Página 103 - Somewhere, below, above, Shall a day dawn — this I know — When Power, which vainly strove My weakness to o'erthrow, Shall triumph. I breathe, I move, I truly am, at last! For a veil is rent between Me and the truth which passed Fitful, half-guessed, bnlf-seen, Grasped at — not gained, held fast.
Página 111 - But, perfect in every part, Has the potter's moulded shape, Leap of man's quickened heart, Throe of his thought's escape, Stings of his soul which dart Through the barrier of flesh, till keen She climbs from the calm and clear, Through turbidity all between, From the known to the unknown here, Heaven's
Página 41 - quoth she. "Shove him quick in the Hole, shut him fast for a week : Cold, darkness and hunger work wonders : Who lion-like roars now, mouse-fashion will squeak, And ' it rains ' soon succeed to
Página 90 - How would you like to read yourself the tale Properly told, of which I gave you first Merely such notion as a boy could bear ? Pope, now, would give you the precise account Of what, some day, by dint of scholarship, You'll hear — who knows ? — from Homer's very mouth. Learn Greek by all means, read the 'Blind Old Man, Sweetest of Singers' — tuphlos which means 'blind,' Hedistos which means 'sweetest.
Página 94 - Without believing such men really were ? That is — he might have put into my hand The " Ethics " ? In translation, if you please, Exact, no pretty lying that improves, To suit the modern taste : no more, no less — The
Página 33 - From fisher's drudge to Church's prince — it is indeed a rise : So, here's my way to keep the fact forever in my eyes ! " And straightway in his palace-hall, where commonly is set Some coat-of-arms, some portraiture ancestral, lo, we met His mean estate's reminder in his fisher-father's net ! Which step conciliates all and some, stops cavil in a trice : "The humble holy heart that holds of new-born pride no spice! He's just the saint to choose for Pope!