...along The golden barriers, And laid her face between her hands, And wept. (I heard her tears.) 144 l above, These blenches2 gave my heart another youth,...And worse essays proved thee my best of love. Now tune was long, yet the time ran, Little brother." (O Mather, Mary Mother, Three days to-day, between...

...can appreciate best the peculiar effect of this sort of repetition by reading the whole poem aloud. "Why did you melt your waxen man, Sister Helen? To-day...time was long, yet the time ran. Little Brother." (0 Mother, Mary Mother, Three days to-day between Hell and Heaven!)6 "But if you have done your work...

...of imitative magic fairly familiar to those who would probably never otherwise have heard of it. " Why did you melt your waxen man, Sister Helen? To-day...time was long, yet the time ran, Little brother." " Oh, the waxen knave was plump to-day, Sister Helen; Now like dead folk he has dropped away ! " "...

...Spain, And the little Revenge herself went down by the . island crags To be lost evermore in the main. SISTER HELEN "Why did you melt your waxen man, Sister...time was long, yet the time ran, Little brother." ( 0 Mother, Mary Mother, Three days to-day, between Hell and Heaven /) "But if you have done your work...

...horses play, Champ and chafe and toss in the spray. Children dear, let us away! This way, this way! 2. Why did you melt your waxen man, Sister Helen? Today...The time was long, yet the time ran, Little brother. 3. Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And...

...moments of intense pain, might very naturally ejaculate the name of Mary. And now we can begin the poem. SISTER HELEN "Why did you melt your waxen man, Sister..."But if you have done your work aright, Sister Helen, "Be very still in your play to-night, Little brother." (0 Mother, Mary Mother, Third night, to-night,...

...moments of intense pain, might very naturally ejaculate the name of Mary. And now we can begin the poem. SISTER HELEN "Why did you melt your waxen man, Sister...time was long, yet the time ran, Little brother." (0 Mother, Mary Mother, Three days to-day, between Hell and Heaven!') "But if you have done your work...

...My Mary " of Cowper's poem (see page 103, above) to the elaboration of such a stanza as Rossetti's Sister Helen: " Why did you melt your waxen man, Sister...you began." " The time was long, yet the time ran, in which the second, fifth, and sixth lines remain the same throughout the forty-two stanzas, and the...

...barriers, And laid her face between her hands, And wept. (I heard her tears.) SISTER HELEN (1853, 1870) "Why did you melt your waxen man, Sister Helen? Today...time was long, yet the time ran, Little brother." S (O Mother, Mary Mother, Three days today, between Hell and Heaven!} "But if you have done your work...

...half of the seventh line remain constantly unchanged, while the first half of the seventh line varies. 'Why did you melt your waxen man, Sister Helen? To-day...time was long, yet the time ran, Little brother.' (0 Mother, Mary Mother, Three days to-day, between Hell and Heaven!) Eden Bower has two separate internal...