Holy-Cross Day (Robert Browning Poem)
ON WHICH THE JEWS WERE FORCED TO ATTEND AN ANNUAL CHRISTIAN SERMON IN ROME. [``Now was come about Holy-Cross Day, ...
ON WHICH THE JEWS WERE FORCED TO ATTEND AN ANNUAL CHRISTIAN SERMON IN ROME. [``Now was come about Holy-Cross Day, ...
I. June was not over Though past the fall, And the best of her roses Had yet to blow, When ...
I. How well I know what I mean to do When the long dark autumn-evenings come: And where, my soul, ...
I am poor brother Lippo, by your leave! You need not clap your torches to my face. Zooks, what's to ...
But do not let us quarrel any more, No, my Lucrezia; bear with me for once: Sit down and all ...
Verse-making was least of my virtues: I viewed with despair Wealth that never yet was but might be--all that verse-making ...
All June I bound the rose in sheaves. Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves And strew them where ...
I. So, I shall see her in three days And just one night, but nights are short, Then two long ...
The year's at the spring, And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearl'd; The lark's on the ...
"Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself." (David, Psalms 50.21) ['Will sprawl, now that the heat ...
I. Nay but you, who do not love her, Is she not pure gold, my mistress? Holds earth aught---speak truth---above ...
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
Escape me? Never-- Beloved! While I am I, and you are you, So long as the world contains us both, ...
I. My first thought was, he lied in every word, That hoary cripple, with malicious eye Askance to watch the ...
SHORTLY AFTER THE REVIVAL OF LEARNING IN EUROPE. Let us begin and carry up this corpse, Singing together. Leave we ...
Out of your whole life give but a moment! All of your life that has gone before, All to come ...
I. I said---Then, dearest, since 'tis so, Since now at length my fate I know, Since nothing all my love ...
I. I dream of a red-rose tree. And which of its roses three Is the dearest rose to me? II. ...
Give'' and ``It-shall-be-given-unto-you.'' I. Grand rough old Martin Luther Bloomed fables---flowers on furze, The better the uncouther: Do roses stick ...
A PICTURE AT FANO. I. Dear and great Angel, wouldst thou only leave That child, when thou hast done with ...
"Why?" Because all I haply can and do, All that I am now, all I hope to be,-- Whence comes ...
(PIANO DI SORRENTO.) Fortu, Frotu, my beloved one, Sit here by my side, On my knees put up both little ...
1842 I As I ride, as I ride, With a full heart for my guide, So its tide rocks my ...
Overhead the tree-tops meet, Flowers and grass spring 'neath one's feet; There was nought above me, and nought below, My ...
I. Gr-r-r---there go, my heart's abhorrence! Water your damned flower-pots, do! If hate killed men, Brother Lawrence, God's blood, would ...
I. Oh, what a dawn of day! How the March sun feels like May! All is blue again After last ...
At the midnight in the silence of the sleep-time, When you set your fancies free, Will they pass to where--by ...
That second time they hunted me From hill to plain, from shore to sea, And Austria, hounding far and wide ...
I wonder how you feel to-day As I have felt since, hand in hand, We sat down on the grass, ...
I What's become of Waring Since he gave us all the slip, Chose land-travel or seafaring, Boots and chest, or ...
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