 | 1850 - 772 Seiten
...by that most eccentric of poets, Robert Browning. They hare more bad feeling than poetry— " 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 as the others she lets us devote ; They, with... | |
 | 1849 - 600 Seiten
...weeks, Was getting by heart." Very spirited is the next song, " The Lost Leader," commencing, " Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband...honor'd him, Lived in his mild and magnificent eye ; Learn 'd his great language, caught his clear accents; Made him onr pattern to live and to die !... | |
 | 1849 - 538 Seiten
...weeks, Was getting by heart." Very spirited is the next song, " The Lost Leader," commencing, — " Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in hi* coat:" — And containing these fine lines, (despite their falsity, for if there ever was a literary... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1850 - 436 Seiten
...wise — If 'tis proper, Scirocco should vanish In black from the skies ! THE LOST LEADER. i. 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... | |
 | 1883 - 674 Seiten
...does not quote with military precision. His lordship, like the rest of iu, must verify. AE p " Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat/' will be found in a poem of Robert Browning's called II* Loll Leader, of which they are the opening... | |
 | 1883 - 676 Seiten
...quote v. ¡Ui military precision. His lordship, like the rest ol us, must verify. А. Б. F, " Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in Lis coat," will be found in a poem of Robert Browning's callee Tht Loit Leader, of which they are the... | |
 | 1850 - 824 Seiten
...verses by that most eccentric of poets, Robert Browning. They have more bad feeling than poetry— "Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to slick in his coal — Found the one gift of which fortune bereft us, Lost as tho others she lets us... | |
 | Sir Arthur Helps - 1860 - 296 Seiten
...ever see a little poem of Browning's called " The Lost Leader ? " MR. MIDHURST. No. MILVERTON. " Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat." And then afterwards it describes the party he had deserted. " We that had loved him so, followed him, honored... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - 1860 - 794 Seiten
...to the Queen ! How much more tragical, sometimes, Life is than Death ! Another Lost Leader : " 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." Yet we thank... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1863 - 430 Seiten
...way. So much for idle wishing — how It steals the time ! To business now ! THE LOST LEADER. I. 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... | |
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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... 
