O lyric Love, half angel and half bird, And all a wonder and a wild desire, — Boldest of hearts that ever braved the sun, Took sanctuary within the holier blue, And sang a kindred soul out to his face, — Yet human at the red-ripe of the heart —... The Poet's Praise: From Homer to Swinburne - Seite 334von Estelle Davenport Adams - 1894 - 407 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1906 - 352 Seiten
...IT was a lover and his lass, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino. SHAKESPEARE The Invocation S~\ LYRIC Love, half angel and half bird ^-^ And all a...that ever braved the sun, Took sanctuary within the holiest blue, And sang a kindred soul out to his face, — Yet human at the red-ripe of the heart —... | |
| Hartley Burr Alexander - 1906 - 268 Seiten
...wonderful comradeship of poet and his yearned-for love in Browning's apostrophe to his dead wife, — O Lyric Love, half angel and half bird, And all a wonder and a wild desire ! . . . Thus environment — Nature and Society — furnishes the context of poetry. But its significance... | |
| Jerome Kilty - 1970 - 66 Seiten
...do it by half. It will be for life and death." (She sits.) But it cannot be! ROBERT. (Moves uc) Oh, lyric love, half angel and half bird, And all a wonder...wild desire, — Boldest of hearts that ever braved a sun, Took sanctuary within the holier blue . . . Let me dream then! I would marry her, now — I... | |
| Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 Seiten
...moralist Show me a good loser and I will show you a loser. Paul Newman (b. 1925) American actor Love O lyric Love, half angel and half bird And all a wonder and a wild desire. Robert Browning (1812-1889) English poet What a recreation it is to be in love! It sets the heart aching... | |
| Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 Seiten
...ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, (1806-1861) British poet. "Sonnets" from the Portuguese, Sonnet 14 (1850). 9 O lyric Love, half angel and half bird And all a wonder and a wild desire. ROBERT BROWNING, (1812-1889) British poet. The Ring and the Book, bk. 1 , 1. 1 391 -2 (1868-1869).... | |
| John Jay Chapman - 1998 - 244 Seiten
...The Invocation in The Ring and the Book is one of the most beautiful openings that can be imagined. "O lyric love, half angel and half bird, And all a...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,... | |
| Jan Hornung - 2002 - 364 Seiten
...National Archives, Washington, DC, and The Veterans of Foreign Wars. CHAPTER 23 Love Stories and Poems O lyric Love, half angel and half bird And all a wonder and a wild desire. Robert Browning, 1812-1889 Although there was nothing romantic about the Vietnam War, there are love... | |
| Charles Williams, Florence Sarah Conway Williams - 2002 - 338 Seiten
...daughters; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians." 143. Robert Browning, The Ring and the Book, 1.1391-92: "O lyric Love, half angel and half bird / And all a wonder and a wild desire." 144. See July 6, 1940, n. 141. 145. See undated letter (1940), above, n. 44. 146. He was relieved that... | |
| Leil Lowndes - 2006 - 274 Seiten
...amphetamines." Could it possibly be that love, that sacred emotion in the words of Robert Burns, "Love, O lyric Love, half angel and half bird? And all a wonder and a wild desire," was just drugs! A chemical reaction? Well, I have good news and bad news here. The bad news, especially... | |
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