Robert Browning's Poetical Works: Asolando. Biographical and historical notes to the poems [by Edward Berdoe] General index. Index to first lines of shorter poemsSmith, Elder, & Company, 1894 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
Admetos Æschylus Agamemnon ancient Andrea del Sarto Apol Apollo Arist Aristophanes Asolando Athenian Athens Bacchus became born Cæsar called Catholic celebrated century Charles Avison Church crown daughter death died Dramatic Idyls Dramatic Lyrics Dramatic Romances Dramatis Personæ Druses earth Eccelin Emperor Euripides famous Fates father festival Fifine Fra Lippo Lippi France French Gerard de Lairesse Greek Guelf Guido heaven Hercules holy honour Imperante Augusto Natus Italian Italy Jochanan Hakkadosh Jocoseria Jupiter king lady Lippo Lippi lived Lord married Muckle-mouth Old Pictures Pacchiarotto Padua painted Paracelsus Parleyings &c Pheidippides Pictures in Florence Pietro of Abano Pippa Passes play poem Poets of Croisic Pope Power priest Prince Hohenstiel &c Queen Red Cotton N. C. C. Roman Rome Saint Saisiaz Sord Sordello soul Strafford thee thou Troy verse viii wife Women word wrote xvii
Passagens conhecidas
Página 206 - His steps are not upon thy paths, — thy fields Are not a spoil for him, — thou dost arise And shake him from thee; the vile strength he wields For earth's destruction thou dost all despise, Spurning him from thy bosom to the skies, And send'st him, shivering in thy playful spray And howling, to his Gods, where haply lies His petty hope in some near port or b'ay, And dashest him again to earth: — there let him lay.
Página 131 - 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 ! What had I on earth to do With the slothful, with the mawkish, the unmanly ? Like the aimless, helpless, hopeless, did I drivel — Being — who ? 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,...
Página 206 - Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? The glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: He goeth on to meet the armed men.
Página 129 - Then life is — to wake not sleep, Rise and not rest, but press From earth's level where blindly creep Things perfected, more or less, To the heaven's height, far and steep, Where, amid what strifes and storms May wait the adventurous quest, Power is Love — transports, transforms Who aspired from worst to best, Sought the soul's world, spurned the worms', no I have faith such end shall be: From the first, Power was — I knew.
Página 161 - CAMPAGNA (Two in the Campagna: Dramatic Lyrics, vol. vi. p. 150). The Campagna di Roma is bounded on the north by the Ciminian Forest, on the west by the sea, and on the east by the Apennine chain of the Sabina. It is a wild and deserted plain covered with grand and picturesque ruins for the most part extremely ancient. ' CANDLE'S AT THE GATEWAY, THE
Página 232 - Latmos, and was so struck with his beauty that she came down from heaven every night to enjoy his company.
Página 127 - Even as the world its life, So have I lived my own — Power seen with Love at strife. That sure, this dimly shown, — Good rare and evil rife. Whereof the effect be — faith That, some far day, were found Ripeness in things now rathe, Wrong righted, each chain unbound, Renewal born out of scathe.
Página 140 - On that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles ; and they were read before the king.
Página 111 - I use your language : mine — no word Of its wealth would help who spoke, who heard, To a gleam of intelligence. None preferred, None felt distaste when better and worse Were uncontrastable : bless or curse What — in that uniform universe ? Can your world's phrase, your sense of things Forth-figure the Star of my God ? No springs, No winters throughout its space. Time brings No hope, no fear : as to-day, shall be To-morrow : advance or retreat need we At our stand-still through eternity ? All...
Página 246 - The King willeth that right be done according to the laws and customs of the realm ; and that the statutes be put in due execution, that his subjects may have no cause to complain of any wrong or oppressions, contrary to their just rights and liberties, to the preservation whereof he holds himself as well obliged as of his prerogative.