Joseph and His Brethren: A Dramatic PoemH. Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1908 - 230 páginas |
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ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE ARTHUR WAUGH AUSTIN DOBSON bear beauty behold BENJAMIN blood bosom breast breath Brethren brother brow Canaan cast dangerous dead doth dramatic dream E. V. LUCAS E'en earth Egypt Egyptian evil Exeunt fair famine father fear flowers gentle grace grave grief hand HARVESTMAN hath heart Heaven honesty honour honour'd Intro ISHMAELITE ISSACHAR JACOB JOSEPH Madam JUDAH king land LEVI live look lord MAGICIAN man's mercy mind NAPHTALI ne'er never o'er OFFICER passion patience peace PHARAOH PHRAXANOR poem poet POTIPHAR Potiphar's wife pray precious REUBEN Rossetti Ruskin House SCENE scorn Second Impression shame sight SIMEON sire slave sleep smile spirit STEWARD story sweet tell thee THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON thine thing thought thy dream trust truth unto vagabond-poet vale WARWICK GOBLE Wells's wind wise wrath young youth ZEBULUN
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Página xxvi - I see an unreached heaven of young desire Shine through my hopeless tears. My drooping sails Flap idly 'gainst the mast of my intent. I rot upon the waters when my prow Should grate the golden isles.
Página ii - Mars the other; Till conqueror Death discover them scarce men, Rolling in brutish vices, and deformed, Violent or shameful death their due reward. But if there be in glory aught of good, It may by means far different be attained Without ambition, war, or violence ; By deeds of peace, by wisdom eminent, By patience, temperance : I mention still Him whom thy wrongs with saintly patience borne Made famous in a land and times obscure.
Página 110 - Were I, like you, a lady of estate, I would adorn my brow with a bright star Of crusted diamond's lustre— stain'd with gold, Like to a frosted sunflower, when the morn Blinks in the east, and plays upon its front. My hair should bear a tiara of bright gems ; And all my velvet should be loop'd about With colours blending into harmony. I would sip water fragranc'd with sweet gum, To give my breathing sweetness.
Página 119 - Oh ! ignorant boy, it is the secret hour The sun of love doth shine most goodly fair. Contemptible darkness never yet did dull The splendour of love's palpitating light. At love's slight curtains, that are made of sighs, Though e'er so dark, silence is seen to stand Like to a flower closed in the night ; Or,, like a lovely image drooping down With its fair head aslant and finger rais'd, And mutely on its shoulder slumbering.
Página 120 - Oh ! for some savage strength ! JOSEPH Away ! away ! PHRAXANOR So, you are loose — I pray you kill me — do ! JOSEPH Let me pass out at door. PHRAXANOR I have a mind You shall at once walk with those honest limbs Into your grave.
Página xiii - ... same capacity of bitter shame and wrath, dormant until the insult of resistance or rebellion has been offered ; the same contemptuous incapacity to understand a narrower passion or a more external morality than their own ; the same rapid and supple power of practical action. All women in literature after these two seem coarse or trivial when they touch on anything sensual ; but in their passion there is nothing common or unclean ; nothing paltry, no taint of vulgar sin or more vulgar repentance,...
Página 119 - And mutely on its shoulder slumbering. Pulses do sound quick music in Love's ear, And blended fragrance in his startled breath Doth hang the hair with drops of magic dew. All outward thoughts, all common circumstance, Are buried in the dimple of his smile : And the great city like a vision sails From out the closing doors of the hush'd mind. His heart strikes audibly against his ribs As a dove's wing doth freak upon a cage, Forcing the blood athro
Página 114 - Cold ! cold ! still cold ! — I eye you like to one That dieth in my arms : beware you chill Me too ! You do a wrong, and herein court Much danger. I would risk the world for you ; But, blow me cold with your sharp frosty breath, And these same arms that gird you round about May turn to bitter chains.