The Carnival of DestinyMoffat, Yard, 1916 - 302 Seiten |
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Abba Ahi's Alaric asked Attila Aulus Bar-Abbas Bar-sur-Aube black bull blood Bolton Castle breast brother Buondelmonti Cahors Candé castle chimæra Chopin Chouans cloak Colonel Lorin cried dark dead death Devla door dream dress drink Emperor eternal eyes eyes face fear feet fire flickered Florence Francis gave girl Glaz gray Guido Hakkoz hand head heard heart hills Honorius Hopkins horses Jean Lorin John Kennedy kill kissed knew Lady Greensleeves Lady of Magdala Lady of Vaucelles laughed lean light lips looked Lord Pilatus Maddalena Marj Master night poet postilion priest ragged Ravenna red hair ring rogue Roman Rome sergeant shoulder Signor Malesto Sir Richard slim smile softly spoke stared stood strange street swiftly sword Talleyrand thing thought threw tower twilight Uberti Vah's voice waiting walked whispered wine women wonderful words yellow young
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Seite 292 - For all God ever gave to her, She kept with chary care. She kept with care her beauties rare From lovers warm and true, — For her heart was cold to all but gold, And the rich came not to woo; But honored well are charms to sell If priests the selling do. Now walking there...
Seite 293 - Honor charmed the air ; And all astir looked kind on her, And called her good as fair; For all God ever gave to her She kept with chary care. She kept with care her beauties rare From lovers warm and true, — For her heart was cold to all but gold, And the rich came not to woo, — But honored well are charms to sell If priests the selling do.
Seite 293 - Twixt Want and Scorn she walked forlorn, And nothing could avail. No mercy now can clear her brow For this world's peace to pray ; For, as love's wild prayer dissolved in air, Her woman's heart gave way ! — But the sin forgiven by Christ in Heaven By man is cursed alway ! In this composition we find it difficult to recognize the Willis who has written so many mere "verses of society.
Seite 297 - Nevertheless it is as a Poem only that I wish this work to be judged after I am dead.
Seite 279 - Did he not then have to find a murderer who did not exist, just as man, once he had eaten of the fruit of the tree of good and evil, had to find the God, who did not exist, or the devil?
Seite 233 - Greensleeves is my heart of gold! And who but my Lady Greensleeves !" So they looked at each other and their eyes promised many things, and they were happy.
Seite 207 - Greensleeves is my heart of gold ! And who but my Lady Greensleeves !" II STILL singing, Sir Richard rode into the courtyard of the castle.
Seite 273 - He bowed and went to the door. There he turned and looked at her with quiet and not hopeless eyes, and his voice as he spoke a few words was quite his own. What he said was, "Good-by, dear one, good-by!
Seite 265 - The postilion dropped from his saddle and opened the door of the carriage and let down the steps. As...