Pacchiarotto and how He Worked in Distemper: With Other PoemsSmith, Elder & Company, 1876 - 241 páginas |
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Pacchiarotto and how He Worked in Distemper: With Other Poems Robert Browning Visualização completa - 1877 |
Pacchiarotto: How He Worked in Distemper : with Other Poems Robert Browning Visualização completa - 1889 |
Pacchiarotto and how He Worked in Distemper: With Other Poems Robert Browning Visualização completa - 1877 |
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15 Waterloo Place adventure Aldobrandini beneath blank book and candle Buti Cardinal Cardinal Aldobrandini Cardinal's cast crown Christian corpse cowslip cried crime Crown 8vo Damfreville dared darkness dead death duty earth ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Enarming EURIPIDES eyes face fancy Farmer fate FILIPPO BALDINUCCI fools friends ghost plays Ghosts God's gold grace ground haply hard hate hate's heart heaven Here's Hervé Riel is-I knave lady laughed leave life's lord Love's Mary matricide mouth never Nowise o'er once Onofrio Oriolo painter Pacchiarotto Paolo pardon pass plague Pope porphyry praise prayer prize prove rest ROBERT BROWNING Santa Croce scarce shear ship smile soar free soft Solidor soul stood sweet thing thought Titian toil tomb took truth turn verjuice wall Whence Whereat wherein wife wine word
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Página 101 - Give the word!" But no such word Was ever spoke or heard; For up stood, for out stepped, for in struck amid all these A Captain? A Lieutenant? A Mate — first, second, third? No such man of mark, and meet With his betters to compete! But a simple Breton sailor, pressed by Tourville for the fleet, A poor coasting-pilot he, Herve Riel, the Croisickese. And "What mockery or malice have we here?
Página 105 - So the storm subsides to calm ; They see the green trees wave On the heights o'erlooking Greve : Hearts that bled are stanched with balm. " Just our rapture to enhance, Let the English rake the bay, Gnash their teeth and glare askance As they cannonade away ! 'Neath rampired Solidor pleasant riding on the Ranee...
Página 107 - My friend, I must speak out at the end, Though I find the speaking hard. Praise is deeper than the lips : You have saved the King his ships, You must name your own reward. 'Faith, our sun was near eclipse ! Demand whate'er you will, France remains your debtor still.
Página 105 - See, safe through shoal and rock, How they follow in a flock, Not a ship that misbehaves, not a keel that grates the ground, Not a spar that comes to grief! The peril, see, is past, All are harboured to the last, And just as Herve Riel hollas "Anchor!
Página 104 - Take the helm, lead the line, save the squadron ! " cried its chief. " Captains, give the sailor place ! He is admiral, in brief." Still the North wind, by God's grace. See the noble fellow's face As the big ship, with a bound, Clears the entry like a hound, Keeps the passage as its inch of way were the wide sea's profound ! See, safe through shoal and rock, How they follow in a flock.
Página 99 - Here's the English at our heels; would you have them take in tow All that's left us of the fleet, linked together stern and bow, For a prize to Plymouth Sound? Better run the ships aground!
Página 103 - Morn and eve, night and day, Have I piloted your bay, Entered free and anchored fast at the foot of Solidor. Burn the fleet and ruin France? That were worse than fifty Hogues! Sirs, they know I speak the truth! Sirs, believe me there's a way! Only let me lead the line, Have the biggest ship to steer, Get this Formidable...
Página 98 - Twas the squadron that escaped, with the victor in full chase ; First and foremost of the drove, in his great ship...
Página 30 - 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?