| Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1870 - 310 páginas
...Stand round her image side by side, Like tombs of pilgrims that have died About the Holy Sepulchre. SISTER HELEN. • WHY did you melt your waxen man,...Mother, Three days to-day, between Hell and Heaven I) ' But if you have done your work aright, Sister Helen, You'll let me play, for you said I might.'... | |
| 1870 - 824 páginas
...visionary night. The space at my disposal will enable me to quote the opening and closing stanzas only. SISTER HELEN. " Why did you melt your waxen man, Sister...time was long, yet the time ran, Little brother." (0 Mother, Mary Mother, Three days to-day, bct-мсеп Hell and Heaven .') " But if you have done... | |
| 1871 - 632 páginas
...alteration, through thirtyfour verses, and might with as much music, and far more point, run as follows :— Why did you melt your waxen man, Si-ster Helen ? To-day...The time was long, yet the time ran, Little brother. (0 Mr. Dante Rnmtti, What stuff is this about Heaven and Me!!?} About as much to the point is a burthen... | |
| Robert Williams Buchanan - 1872 - 130 páginas
...persons are very fond for its own sake, quite apart from its relevancy. Thus Mr. Rossetti sings :— " Why did you melt your waxen man, Sister Helen ? To-day...(O mother, Mary mother. Three days to-day between Heaven and Hell.)" This burden is repeated, with little or no alteration, through thirty-four verses.... | |
| Living voices - 1873 - 588 páginas
...or—cease ?— When hearts are pure, and bold, and strong, True love as life itself is long. Miss MULOCH. , SISTER HELEN. " WHY did you melt your waxen man, Sister Helen ? To-day is the third day since you began !" " The time was long, yet the time ran, Little brother." (O Mother, Mary Mother,... | |
| Henry Troth Coates - 1878 - 1116 páginas
...tomb Affrighted shall come, Call'd out by the clap of the thunder. BoukitT HEKKK-K. SISTER U ELKS. " A-DALE. COME listen to me, you gallants so free, All...Nottinghamshire. As Robin Hood in the forest stood, " But if you have done your work aright, Sister Helen, You'll let me play, for you said I might." "... | |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1881 - 316 páginas
...soon their path Was vague in distant spheres: And then she cast her arms along The golden barriers, SISTER HELEN. ' WHY did you melt your waxen man, Sister...Mother, Three days to-day, between Hell and Heaven /) ' But if you have done your work aright, Sister Helen, You'll let me play, for you said I might.'... | |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1881 - 320 páginas
...soon their path Was vague in distant spheres: And then she cast her arms along The golden barriers, SISTER HELEN. ' WHY did you melt your waxen man, Sister...Mother, Three days to-day, between Hell and Heaven /) ' But if you have done your work aright, Sister Helen, You'll let me play, for you said I might.'... | |
| Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 páginas
...The ghost from the tomb Affrighted shall come, Call'd out by the clap of the thunder. KOBEKT HEBRICK. SISTER HELEN. " WHY did you melt your waxen man, Sister...Mother, Three days to-day, between hell and heaven!) " But if you have done your work aright. Sister Helen, You'll let me play, for you said I might. 1... | |
| James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1882 - 1190 páginas
...witch in ' Macbeth ' could make her victim ' peak and pine ' will understand the allusion in this:— ' Why did you melt your waxen man, Sister Helen ? To-day...you began.' ' The time was long, yet the time ran, Three days to-day, between Hell and Heaven !') Little brother.' (0 Mother, Mary Mother, It is a story... | |
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