There's a lady — an earl's daughter, — she is proud and she is noble, And she treads the crimson carpet, and she breathes the perfumed air, And a kingly blood sends glances up her princely eye to trouble, And the shadow of a monarch's crown is softened... Quips and Cranks - Seite 130von Tom Hood - 1861 - 390 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1857 - 602 Seiten
...the same poem, should have known better than to degrade them by the proximity of such baldness as: " She treads the crimson carpet, and she breathes the perfumed air ;" and much more in the same poem. This is not a time in which a poet can afford to do anything but the best.... | |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1845 - 276 Seiten
...peasants ! — but their faces are too still. There's a lady — an earl's daughter ; she is proud and she is noble ; And she treads the crimson carpet, and she breathes the perfumed air ; -41 And a kingly blood sends glances up her princely eye to trouble, And the shadow of a monarch's... | |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1850 - 596 Seiten
...peasants : — but their faces are too still. There's a lady — an earl's daughter ; she is proud and she is noble, And she treads the crimson carpet,...shadow of a monarch's crown is softened in her hair. She has halls and she has castles, and the resonant steam-eagles Follow far on the direction of her... | |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1850 - 318 Seiten
...peasants ! — hut their faces are too still. There's a lady — an earl's daughter ; she is proud and she is noble ; And she treads the crimson carpet,...to trouble, And the shadow of a monarch's crown is sweeping in her hair. She has halls and she has castles, and the resonant steam-eagles Follow far on... | |
| 1851 - 902 Seiten
...and accomplishment, but of very elevated rank. ' There's a lady — an earl's daughter ; she is proud and she is noble. And she treads the crimson carpet,...shadow of a monarch's crown is softened in her hair. ' She has halls and she has castles, and the resonant steam-eagles Follow far on the direction of her... | |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1853 - 508 Seiten
...peasants, — but their faces are too still. There's a lady — an earl's daughter, — she is proud and she is noble, And she treads the crimson carpet,...shadow of a monarch's crown is softened in her hair. She has halls among the woodlands, she has castles by the breakers, She has farms and she has manors,... | |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1853 - 298 Seiten
...peasants ! — but their faces are too still. There's a lady — an earl's daughter ; she is proud and she is noble ; And she treads the crimson carpet,...trouble, And the shadow of a monarch's crown is softened ia her hair. She lias halls and she has castles, and the resonant steam-eagles Follow far on the direction... | |
| Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1854 - 382 Seiten
...Night's Dream. CHAPTER I. There are none of England's daughters that bear a prouder presence. ******* And a kingly blood sends glances up, her princely...shadow of a monarch's crown is softened in her hair. ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNIHG. THE sun shone slanting over a spacious park, the undulating ground here... | |
| Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1854 - 380 Seiten
...NIGHT'S DREAM. CHAPTER I. There are none of England's daughters that bear a prouder presence. ******* And a kingly blood sends glances up, her princely...shadow of a monarch's crown is softened in her hair. ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING. rPHE sun shone slanting over a spacious park, the JL undulating ground... | |
| 1857 - 654 Seiten
...same poem, should have known better than to degrade them by the proximity of such baldness as, — " She treads the crimson carpet, and she breathes the perfumed air ;" and much more in the same poem. This is not a time in which a poet can afford to do anything but the best.... | |
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