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" JUST for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat — Found the one gift of which fortune bereft us, Lost all the others she lets us devote ; They, with the gold to give, doled him out silver, So much was theirs who so little... "
The Arena - Página 645
1901
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Songs of Three Centuries

John Greenleaf Whittier - 1890 - 482 páginas
...for a handful of silver he left us ; Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat, — Found the one girt of which fortune bereft us, Lost all the others she...silver, So much was theirs who so little allowed. How all our copper had gone for his service! Rags — were they purple, his heart had been proud !...
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The Magazine of Poetry, Volume 2,Edições 1-4

1890 - 542 páginas
...Smiling, the boy fell dead. THE LOST LEADER. JUST for a handful of silver he left UP, Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat — Found the one gift of which...us devote; They, with the gold to give, doled him ont silver, So much was theirs who so little allowed. How all our copper had gone for his service!...
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Principal Shorter Poems

Robert Browning - 1890 - 328 páginas
...righteous and wise — If 'tis proper, Scirocco should vanish In black from the skies ! illjc Cost f eober. JUST for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat — Found the one gift of which fortune bereft us, Lost all the others...
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Ulysses Annotated: Notes for James Joyce's Ulysses

Don Gifford, Robert J. Seidman - 1988 - 704 páginas
...1842 and of the position of Poet Laureate in 1843 influenced the reversal of his political opinions. "Just for a handful of silver he left us, / Just for a riband to stick in his coat" (lines 1-2). 3.245 (43:29). gossoon - A boy, a servant boy, a lackey; rustic, inexperienced. 3.247...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 páginas
...instant made eternity— (1. 105-108) BoLoP; FiP; LiTB; NAEL-2; OBEY; PoEL-5; UnPo The Lost Leader 44 re sail, — (1.1 —2) 45 We that had loved him so, followed him, honored him, Lived in his mild and magnificent...
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Best Remembered Poems

Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 páginas
...wooden tongue." In the unkindest cut of all, Browning wrote "The Lost Leader," a poem that begins: "Just for a handful of silver he left us, /Just for a riband to stick on his coat." Parodists called him "Wordswords" and "Worstworst." Was it Wordsworth's piety that turned...
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The Rise and Fall of a Middle Power: Canadian Diplomacy from King to Mulroney

Arthur Andrew - 1993 - 214 páginas
...the beginning of the end of its Golden Age of Innocence. Middle Age 1956-1968 Under New Management Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat. Quoting Browning was how one FSO broke the news to his officemates one...
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The Works of Robert Browning

Robert Browning - 1994 - 718 páginas
...'Boot, saddle, to horse, and fwayl' 'HOW THEY BROUGHT THE GOOD THE LOST LEADER *™ FROM GHENT TO ATX' JUST for a handful of silver he left us, * Just for a riband to stick in his coat — I SPRANG to the stirrup, and Jons, and he; Found the one gift of which fortune bereft I galloped,...
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Famous Lines: A Columbia Dictionary of Familiar Quotations

Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 páginas
...had been good for that man if he had not been born. BIBLE: NEW TESTAMENT, lesus, in Matthew, 26:24. Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat. ROBERT BROWNING, (1812-1889) British poet. "The Lost Leader", st. 1 , Dramatic Romances and Lyrics...
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Repel With a Cause: The Autobiography of Hans Eysenck

Hans Jürgen Eysenck - 1997 - 368 páginas
...me, but winning it did not make me happy. Browning's poem The Lost Leader encapsulates my feelings: Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat. I had gladly acknowledged Lewis's leadership in trying to make psychiatry and clinical psychology more...
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