I crossed a moor, with a name of its own And a certain use in the world no doubt, Yet a hand's-breadth of it shines alone 'Mid the blank miles round about... Literary Sketches - Seite 23von Henry S. Salt - 1888 - 235 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Robert Chambers - 1832 - 846 Seiten
...on.' It would not be right to omit Robert Browning's beautiful tribute to the memory of the poet : Memorabilia. ' Ah, did you once see Shelley plain,...speak to him again ? How strange it seems, and new! But you were living before that, And you are living after, And the memory I started at — My starting... | |
| Robert Browning - 1856 - 386 Seiten
...time he has tested his first plough, And studied his last chapter of St. John. MEMORABILIA. 1. An, did you once see Shelley plain, And did he stop and...speak to him again ? How strange it seems, and new ! 2. But you were living before that, And you are living after, And the memory I started at — My... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 872 Seiten
...Browningites by nature. The week passed, as weeks will, the lights were turned out, the voices silenced. But : Ah, did you once see Shelley plain, And did he stop and speak to you ? And did yon speak to him again ? How strange it seems, and new 1 But you were living before that, And you are... | |
| Robert Browning - 1863 - 360 Seiten
...this time he has tested his first plough, And studied his last chapter of St. John. MEMORABILIA. 1. AH, did you once see Shelley plain, And did he stop...speak to him again ? How strange it seems, and new ! 2. But you were living before that, And you are living after, And the memory I started at — My... | |
| Robert Browning - 1866 - 120 Seiten
...hope drops to ground Than a new one, straight to the selfsame mark, I shape me, — Ever Removed ! MEMORABILIA. AH, did you once see Shelley plain, And...and speak to you ? And did you speak to him again 1 How strange it seems, and new ! But you were living before that, And you are living after, And the... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1867 - 824 Seiten
...fills up the blank. Writing of Shelley, the English poet of whom he speaks with most reverence — "Ah, did you once see Shelley plain, And did he stop and speak to you?" — he is led to treat of poetry in general, and of the relation in which a great poet stands to his... | |
| Afternoon lectures - 1869 - 378 Seiten
...eyes, he is lost in a trance of wonder and awe, in which the man appears glorified before him : — " Ah ! did you once see Shelley plain, And did he stop...speak to him again ? How strange it seems and new ! But you were living before that, And you are living after, And the memory I started at — My starting... | |
| 1869 - 384 Seiten
...eyes, he is lost in a trance of wonder and awe, in which the man appears glorified before him : — " Ah ! did you once see Shelley plain, And did he stop...speak to him again ? How strange it seems and new ! But you were living before that, And you are living after, And the memory I started at — My starting... | |
| 1871 - 314 Seiten
...hope drops to ground Than a new one, straight to the selfeame mark, I shape me, — Ever Removed ! MEMORABILIA. AH, did you once see Shelley plain, And...speak to him again ; How strange it seems, and new ! But you were living before that, And you are living after, And the memory I started at, — My starting... | |
| Clara Bellew - 1871 - 328 Seiten
...ever." " Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumbered, " etc. Euawlwrrj II..:. "Ah, did you once see Shelley plain, And did he stop and speak to you ?" " A murderer, and a villain ; A slave, that is not the twentieth part of the tithe Of your precedent... | |
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