Studies and Romances

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Henry S. King & Company, 1873 - 415 páginas
 

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Página 338 - Love had he found in huts where poor Men lie : His daily Teachers had been Woods and Rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
Página 92 - ... flow, by lawn and lea, A rivulet then a river: No where by thee my steps shall be, For ever and for ever. But here will sigh thine alder tree, And here thine aspen shiver; And here by thee will hum the bee, For ever and for ever. A thousand suns will stream on thee, A thousand moons will quiver; But not by thee my steps shall be, For ever and for ever.
Página 273 - Du lieber Gott! was so ein Mann Nicht alles, alles denken kann! Beschämt nur steh ich vor ihm da Und sag zu allen Sachen ja.
Página 92 - Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair; Listen for dear honour's sake, Goddess of the silver lake, Listen and save! Listen, and appear to us, In name of great Oceanus, By the earth-shaking Neptune's mace, And Tethys...
Página 309 - Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement.
Página 1 - And for my part, if only one allow The care my labouring spirits take in this, He is to me a theatre large enow, And his applause only sufficient is — All my respect is bent but to his brow That is my all, and all I am is his. And if some worthy spirits be pleased too, It shall more comfort breed, but not more will, BUT WHAT IF NONE ? It cannot yet undo The love...
Página 350 - Swiss bank. The Swiss guards had then come with a boat to pick him up. So now Mario was in Switzerland, in safety. Adriano's face wore that expression of mingled happiness and fear in time of danger that it had at the time of Turati's flight. He put a car and a driver at my mother's disposal, but she did not know what to do, or where to go. She kept putting her hands together, saying with a mixture of happiness, admiration and alarm, 'In the water, in his overcoat!
Página 224 - And when evening descended from Heaven above, And the Earth was all rest, and the air was all love...
Página 242 - You did me the honor, perhaps, to be moved at my side now and then In the senses, — a vice, I have heard, which is common to beasts and some men. "Love's a virtue for heroes! — as white as the snow on high hills, And immortal as every great soul is that struggles, endures, and fulfils.
Página 276 - What stirred it so : alas, I found it love ! Yet far from lust ; for, could I but have lived In presence of you, I had had my end.

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