...furentes sanguine ceu calidi saevaque libidine flagrant. XVII О lyric love, half-angel and half-bird And all a wonder and a wild desire, — Boldest of...his face, — Yet human at the red-ripe of the heart — When the first summons from the darkling earth Eeached thee amid thy chambers, blanched their blue,...

...away its trace Till, justifiably golden, rounds my ring. A ring without a posy, and that ring mine ? O lyric Love, half angel and half bird, And all a...holier blue, And sang a kindred soul out to his face, — (t --Yet bjuaan at the red-ripe of the heart — "7-^ When the first summons from the darkling...

...lightsomeness. The first two verses have a Tennysonian ring : — " O lyric Love, half-angel and half-bird all a wonder and a wild desire, — Boldest of hearts...his face, — Yet human at the red-ripe of the heart — When the first summons from the darkling earth Reached thee amid thy chambers, blanched their blue,...

...TALFOURD in ike National Portrait Gallery^ London) ELIZABETH B. BROWNING 153 Elizabeth Barrett Browning O lyric Love, half angel and half bird, And all a wonder and a wild desire. ROBERT BROWNING LOVE SONNETS I IF thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only....

...Whoso reads it feels how her spirit, living still for him, brooded over and blest his masterpiece : O lyric Love, half angel and half bird And all a wonder...his face, — Yet human at the red-ripe of the heart — When the first summons from the darkling earth Reached thee amid thy chambers, blanched their blue,...

...Whoso reads it feels how her spirit, living still for him, brooded over and blest his masterpiece : O lyric Love, half angel and half bird And all a wonder...his face, — Yet human at the red-ripe of the heart — When the first summons from the darkling earth Reached thee amid thy chambers, blanched their blue,...

...Whoso reads it feels how her spirit, living still for him, brooded over and blest his masterpiece : O lyric Love, half angel and half bird And all a wonder...his face, — Yet human at the red-ripe of the heart — When the first summons from the darkling earth Reached thee amid thy chambers, blanched their blue,...

...lyric Love, half angel and half bird, And all a wonder and wild desire, — Boldest of hearts that even braved the sun, Took sanctuary within the holier blue,...his face, — Yet human at the red-ripe of the heart — When the first summons from the darkling earth Reached thee amid thy chambers, blanched their blue,...

...sure to quote Browning's tribute to his dead wife in the dedication to " The Ring and the Book " : ' " O Lyric Love, half angel and half bird, And all a wonder and a wild desire" ; but I wanted to hear what he would prophesy of the Ideal Woman of the Future.' ' Ah, Joyce,' I said,...

...her in spirit as only he himself could express it in his apostrophe to her in The Ring and the Book : "O lyric Love, half angel and half bird, And all a wonder and wild desire, — Boldest of hearts that even braved the sun, Took sanctuary within the holier blue,...