An age of scum, spooned off the richer past, An age of patches for old gaberdines, An age of mere transition, meaning nought Except that what succeeds must shame it quite If God please. That's wrong thinking, to my mind, And wrong thoughts make poor poems.... Poems - Página 162por Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1864Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1857 - 404 páginas
...silver- washed ; An age of scum, spooned off the richer past ; An age of patches for old gaberdines ; An age of mere transition, meaning nought, Except...wrong thoughts make poor poems. Every age, Through "feeing beheld too close, is ill-discerned By those who have not lived past it. We'll suppose Mount... | |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1857 - 420 páginas
...silver- washed ; An age of scum, spooned off the richer past ; An age of patches for old gaberdines ; An age of mere transition, meaning nought, Except...what succeeds must shame it quite, If God please. That 's wrong thinking, to my mind, And wrong thoughts make poor poems. Every age, Through being beheld... | |
| 1857 - 758 páginas
...silver washed ; An age of scum, spooned ofl the richer past ; An age of patches for old gaberdines ; An age of mere transition, meaning nought, Except that what succeeds must shume it quite If God please. That's wrong thinking to my mind, And wrong thoughts make poor poems.... | |
| Thomas Starr King - 1860 - 436 páginas
...glad to associate with their visit to the spot where the granite Profile is revealed to them : — Every age, Through being beheld too close, is ill-discerned By those who hfivc not lived past it. We'll suppose Mount Atlios curved, as Persian Xerxes schemed. To some colossal... | |
| Timothy Titcomb - 1863 - 354 páginas
...silver- washed ; An age of scum, spooned off the richer past ; An age of patches for old gaberdines ; An age of mere transition, meaning nought Except that...what succeeds must shame it quite, If God please." And now, as I have broached Mrs. Browning upon this point, I will go farther and let her sing the rest... | |
| Marietta Holley - 1864 - 352 páginas
...metal, silver-washed; An age of scum, spooned off the richer past; An age of patches for old gaberdines; An age of mere transition, meaning nought Except that...what succeeds must shame it quite, If God please." And now, as I have broached Mrs. Browning upon this point, I will go farther and let her sing the rest... | |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1870 - 533 páginas
...metal, silverwashed ; An age of scum, spooned off the richer past, An age of patches for old gaberdines, An age of mere transition, meaning nought Except that...lived past it. We'll suppose Mount Athos carved, as Alexander schemed, To some colossal statue of a man : The peasants, gathering brushwood in. his ear,... | |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1872 - 540 páginas
...metal, silverwashed ; An age of scum, spooned off the richer past, An age of patches for old gaberdines, An age of mere transition, meaning nought Except that...lived past it. We'll suppose Mount Athos carved, as Alexander schemed, To some colossal statue of a man : The peasants, gathering brushwood in his ear,... | |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1872 - 348 páginas
...silver- washed; An age of scum, spooned off the richer past, An age of patches for old gaberdines, An age of mere transition, meaning nought Except that...lived past it. We'll suppose Mount Athos carved, as Alexander schemed, To some colossal statue of a man. The peasants, gathering brushwood in his ear,... | |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1872 - 428 páginas
...silver- washed ; An age of scum, spooned off the richer past, An age of patches for old gaberdines, An age of mere transition, meaning nought Except that what succeeds must shame it quite If God please. That 'a wrong thinking, to my mind, And wrong thoughts make poor poems. Every age, Through being beheld... | |
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