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Página 510 - But — shop each day and all day long ! Friend, your good angel slept, your star Suffered eclipse, fate did you wrong ! From where these sorts of treasures are, There should our hearts be — Christ, how far ! PISGAH-SIGHTS. I. I. OVER the ball of it, Peering and prying, How I see all of it, Life there, outlying! Roughness and smoothness, Shine and defilement, Grace and uncouthness : One reconcilement.
Página 493 - Have you found your life distasteful ? My life did and does smack sweet. Was your youth of pleasure wasteful ? Mine I saved and hold complete. Do your joys with age diminish ? When mine fail me, I'll complain. Must in death your daylight finish ? My sun sets to rise again.
Página 105 - Gladness be with thee, Helper of our world ! I think this is the authentic sign and seal Of Godship, that it ever waxes glad, And more glad, until gladness blossoms, bursts Into a rage to suffer for mankind, And recommence at sorrow : drops like seed After the blossom, ultimate of all.
Página 491 - Which of you did I enable Once to slip inside my breast, There to catalogue and label What I like least, what love best, Hope and fear, believe and doubt of, Seek and shun, respect — deride? Who has right to make a rout of Rarities he found inside?
Página 117 - To be demonstrably thy friend : but thou Told'st me not of the corpse then claiming care, That was thy wife's, but didst instal me guest I the house here, as though busied with a grief Indeed, but then, mere grief beyond thy gate : And so, I crowned my head, and to the Gods Poured my libations in thy dwelling-place, With such misfortune round me. And I blame — Certainly blame thee, having suffered thus ! But still I would not pain thee, pained enough...
Página 153 - There live in peace, there work in hope once more, O nothing doubt, Philemon ! Greed and strife, Hatred and cark and care, what place have they In yon blue liberality of heaven ? How the sea helps ! How rose-smit earth will rise Breast-high thence, some bright morning, and be Rhodes! Heaven, earth and sea, my warrant — in their name, Believe — o'er falsehood, truth is surely sphered, O'er ugliness beams beauty, o'er this world Extends that realm where,
Página 116 - The yellow hair o' the hero ! — his big frame A-quiver with each muscle sinking back Into the sleepy smooth it leaped from late. Under the great guard of one arm, there leant A shrouded something, live and woman-like, Propped by the heart-beats 'neath the lion-coat.
Página 131 - That consecration to the lower Gods, And on our upper world the third day rise ! Lead her in, meanwhile ; good and true thou art, Good, true, remain thou ! Practise piety To stranger-guests the old way ! So, farewell ! Since forth I fare, fulfil my urgent task Set by the king, the son of Sthenelos.
Página 104 - I' the house again Alkestis, bring about Comfort and succor to Admetos so! I will go lie in wait for Death, black-stoled King of the corpses! I shall find him, sure, Drinking, beside the tomb, o' the sacrifice: And if I lie in ambuscade, and leap Out of my lair, and seize — encircle him Till one hand join the other round about — There lives not who shall pull him out from me...
Página 33 - Preference for her husband to herself Than by determining to die for him ? But so much all our city knows indeed : Hear what she did indoors and wonder then ! For, when she felt the crowning day was come, She washed with river-waters her white skin, And, taking from the cedar closets forth Vesture and ornament, bedecked herself Nobly, and stood before the hearth, and prayed : ' Mistress, because I now depart the world, Falling before thee the last time, I ask — Be mother to my orphans...

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