Addresses Commemorating the Birth of Robert Browning: Delivered Before the New York Browning Society, May Seventh, Nineteen Hundred and Twelve, in New York CityNew York Browning Society, 1912 - 121 pages |
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Abt Vogler artist asceticism beauty Beddoes Browning Society Browning's poetry Byron called casuistry character closet drama contemporary critic crown deepest divine doubt dramatic lyric dramatist earth EDWIN MARKHAM Emerson emotion England English poetry expression fact faith fancy feel Ferishtah's Fancies Fifine genius gift Greek Guido heart heaven hope human soul imagine Immortality individual influence ing's inspiring intelligent intense interest Italy literature lives lover lyric ment mind modern monologues moral Moscheles nature never optimism Paracelsus passion Pauline perhaps person philosophy picture Pippa Pippa Passes play poem poet poetic Pompilia Pope reader revealed rhyme Robert Browning Saisiaz seems sense Shakespeare Shelley side sing Sordello sort soul-development speak spirit stage sublime supreme sure Tennyson theatrical thing Thomas Lovell Beddoes thought tion to-day tragedy true truth verse vital WILLIAM NORMAN GUTHRIE women words Wordsworth
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Page 25 - Her mantle laps Over my Lady's wrist too much," or "Paint Must never hope to reproduce the faint Half-flush that dies along her throat,": such stuff Was courtesy, she thought, and cause enough For calling up that spot of joy.
Page 86 - I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me ; and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities torture...
Page 80 - Tis the weakness in strength, that I cry for ! my flesh, that I seek In the Godhead ! I seek and I find it. O Saul, it shall be A Face like my face that receives thee; a Man like to me, Thou shalt love and be loved by, forever: a Hand like this hand Shall throw open the gates of new life to thee! See the Christ stand!
Page 73 - The counter our lovers staked was lost As surely as if it were lawful coin : And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost Is, the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin, Though the end in sight was a vice, I say.
Page 7 - Just when we are safest, there's a sunset-touch, A fancy from a flower-bell, some one's death, A chorus-ending from Euripides, — And that 's enough for fifty hopes and fears As old and new at once as nature's self...
Page 16 - And says there's news to-day — the king Was shot at, touched in the liver-wing, Goes with his Bourbon arm in a sling : — She hopes they have not caught the felons. Italy, my Italy ! Queen Mary's saying serves for me — (When fortune's malice Lost her — Calais) — Open my heart and you will see Graved inside of it,
Page 100 - If I stoop Into a dark tremendous sea of cloud, It is but for a time ; I press God's lamp Close to my breast — its splendour, soon or late, Will pierce the gloom : I shall emerge one day ! You understand me ? I have said enough ? Fest.
Page 74 - On which I conclude, that the early painters. To cries of " Greek Art and what more wish you ?" — Replied, " To become now self-acquainters, And paint man, man, whatever the issue ! Make new hopes shine through the flesh they fray, New fears aggrandize the rags and tatters : To bring the invisible full into play ! Let the visible go to the dogs — what matters ?
Page 88 - Love, you saw me gather men and women, Live or dead or fashioned by my fancy, Enter each and all, and use their service, Speak from every mouth, — the speech, a poem.
Page 36 - SEA and the long black land; And the yellow half-moon large and low; And the startled little waves that leap In fiery ringlets from their sleep, As I gain the cove with pushing prow, And quench its speed i' the slushy sand. Then a mile of warm sea-scented beach; Three fields to cross till a farm appears; A tap at the pane, the quick sharp scratch And blue spurt of a lighted match, And a voice less loud, through its joys and fears, Than the two hearts beating each to each!