Poems, Volume 3J. Miller, 1864 |
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... Grown chill through something being away , though what It knows not . I , Aurora Leigh , was born To make my father sadder , and myself Not overjoyous , truly . Women know The way to rear up children , ( to be just , ) They know a ...
... Grown chill through something being away , though what It knows not . I , Aurora Leigh , was born To make my father sadder , and myself Not overjoyous , truly . Women know The way to rear up children , ( to be just , ) They know a ...
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... grow anew familiar with the sun , — Who had reached to freedom , not to action , lived , But lived as one entranced , with thoughts , not aims , - Whom love had unmade from a common man But not completed to an uncommon man , — My father ...
... grow anew familiar with the sun , — Who had reached to freedom , not to action , lived , But lived as one entranced , with thoughts , not aims , - Whom love had unmade from a common man But not completed to an uncommon man , — My father ...
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... growing like the plants from unseen roots In tongue - tied Springs , —and suddenly awoke To full life and its needs and agonies , With an intense , strong , struggling heart beside A stone - dead father . Life , struck sharp on death ...
... growing like the plants from unseen roots In tongue - tied Springs , —and suddenly awoke To full life and its needs and agonies , With an intense , strong , struggling heart beside A stone - dead father . Life , struck sharp on death ...
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... shut my music up And push my needles down , and lead me out To see in that south angle of the house The figs grow black as if by a Tuscan rock , VOL . III . 2 On some light pretext . She would turn her head AURORA LEIGH . 17.
... shut my music up And push my needles down , and lead me out To see in that south angle of the house The figs grow black as if by a Tuscan rock , VOL . III . 2 On some light pretext . She would turn her head AURORA LEIGH . 17.
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... chariots which retreat As earth grows clearer . . slowly , by degrees , I woke , rose up . . where was I ? in the world : For uses , therefore , I must count worth while . I had a little chamber in the house , As 18 LEIGH . AURORA.
... chariots which retreat As earth grows clearer . . slowly , by degrees , I woke , rose up . . where was I ? in the world : For uses , therefore , I must count worth while . I had a little chamber in the house , As 18 LEIGH . AURORA.
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Poems: Complete ... Corrected by the Last London Ed, Volume 3 Elizabeth Barrett Browning Visualização integral - 1869 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
answered Aurora Leigh babe better blood blue air breath catch cheeks child cousin Romney creature cried curse dare dead dear dream drop dropt earth Emperor Evermore eyes face father feel Florence flower girl God's Grand Duke grave grief half hand head heart heaven henceforth honour Italy Kate Ward keep kiss Lady Waldemar laugh leave light lips live look Lord man's Marian Erle Mark Gage marriage Miss Leigh mother Muse NAPOLEON III never night nosegay once passion paused perhaps phalanstery pity poets poor pray pretty Proclus Romney Leigh Romney's rose round sate scarcely scorn sigh sight silence Sir Blaise smile soul speak spoke stand stood strong sweet talk thee there's thing thou thought touch truth turned Tuscan twas twixt voice walk weep wife woman women word write wrong
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Página 35 - ... gentle dimplement, (As if God's finger touched but did not press In making England) such an up and down Of verdure, — nothing too much up or down, A ripple of land; such little hills, the sky Can stoop to tenderly and the wheatfields climb; Such nooks of valleys lined with orchises, Fed full of noises by invisible streams; And open pastures where you scarcely tell White daisies from white dew, — at intervals The mythic oaks and elm-trees standing out Self-poised upon their prodigy of shade,...
Página 35 - And view the ground's most gentle dimplement (As if God's finger touched, but did not press In making England!), such an up and down Of verdure — nothing too much up or down, A ripple of land ; such little hills, the sky Can stoop to tenderly, and...
Página 2 - When scarcely I was four years old, my life A poor spark snatched up from a failing lamp Which went out therefore. She was weak and frail; She could not bear the joy of giving life, The mother's rapture slew her.
Página 163 - A little overgrown (I think there is), Their sole work is to represent the age, Their age, not Charlemagne's - this live, throbbing age, That brawls, cheats, maddens, calculates, aspires, And spends more passion, more heroic heat, Betwixt the mirrors of its drawing-rooms, Than Roland with his knights at Roncesvalles. To flinch from modern varnish, coat or flounce, Cry out for togas and the picturesque, Is fatal - foolish too.
Página 164 - Never flinch, But still, unscrupulously epic, catch Upon the burning lava of a song The full-veined, heaving, double-breasted Age . That, when the next shall come, the men of that May touch the impress with reverent hand, and say ' Behold, —behold the paps we all have sucked ! This bosom seems to beat still, or at least It sets ours beating : this is living art, Which thus presents and thus records true life.
Página 397 - shalt thou write My curse to-night. Because thou hast strength to see and hate A foul thing done within thy gate.' ' Not so,' I answered once again. ' To curse, choose men. For I, a woman, have only known How the heart melts and the tears run down.
Página 162 - 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. Every age, Through being beheld too close, is ill-discerned By those who have not lived past it.
Página 254 - I felt the wind soft from the land of souls ; The old miraculous mountains heaved in sight, One straining past another along the shore, The way of grand dull Odyssean ghosts Athirst to drink the cool blue wine of seas, And stare on voyagers. Peak pushing peak, They stood. I watched, beyond that Tyrian belt...
Página 239 - Which so, that she might clutch with both her hands, And chink to her naughty uses undisturbed, She served me (after all it was not strange : 'Twas only what my mother would have done) A motherly, right damnable good turn.