 When the angels speak. A ring of amethyst I could not wear here plainer to my sight, Than that first kiss. The second passed in height The first, and sought the forehead, and half missed, Half falling on the hair. O beyond meed ! That was the chrism of...  Poems - Page 465by Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1853Full view - About this book
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1851 - 252 pages
...Should set a sculptured porpoise, gills a-snort, And vibrant tail, within the temple-gate. xxxvni. FIRST time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers...and white, . . . Slow to world-greetings . . quick \vith its " Oh, lislj" When the angels speak. A ring of amethyst I could not wear here plainer to my... | |
 | 1851 - 608 pages
...translated from the Portuguese, but the fair translator's own nature is unmistakably revealed: — " First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I writ«, And ever since it grew more clear mid white. Slow to world-greetings, quick with its 'Oh list'.'... | |
 | 1851 - 574 pages
...white Thou sawest growing ! Atheists are as dull, Who cannot guess God's presence out of sight. First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers...hand wherewith I write, And ever since it grew more clear and white ; How to world greetings . . . quick with its " Oh, list," When the angels speak. A... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1862 - 480 pages
...sculptured porpoise, gills a-snort And vibrant tail, within the temple-gate. y V XXXVIII. TIEST time ho kissed me, he but only kissed \ The fingers of this...write ; / And, ever since, it grew more clean and white,1). . "Slow to world-greetings . . quick with its ' Oh, list," "When the angels speak. A ring... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1864 - 334 pages
...sculptured porpoise, gills a-snort And vibrant tail, within the temple-gate. xxxvn. XXX VII I. FIRST time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers...write ; And ever since, it grew more clean and white, Blow to world-greetings, quick with its ' Oh, list,' When the angels speak. A ring of amethyst I could... | |
 | Lydia M. Millard - 1865 - 276 pages
...'m thinking or reading. I hold Mrs. Browning's Poems in my hand, and I open to this passage: — " A ring of amethyst I could not wear here plainer to my sight Than that first kiss." I read the beautiful lines about the second and the third kiss. • I mark them with a lead-pencil,... | |
 | 1866 - 404 pages
...a* exquisite its that of this dear lady.] First time he kiss* d me, but ho only kissed The flngera of this hand wherewith I write: And ever since it grew more clear and white. Blow to the world-greeting, quick with Its "O list," Wb'.-n the angels speak. The... | |
 | Samuel Roberts Wells - 1870 - 252 pages
...dcqth, darling, naught until death ! " Clamice KISSES AND KISSING. First time he kissed me, but he only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write : And ever since it grew more clear and white, Slow to the world-greeting, quick with its " O list," When the angels speak. The second... | |
 | Theodore Tilton - 1870 - 350 pages
...this hand wherewith I write, And,ever since, it grew more clean and white, Plow to world greetings . . quick with its 'Oh, list,' When the angels speak. A ring of amethyst I conld not wear here, plainer to my sight Than that first kiss. The second passed in height The first,... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1870 - 533 pages
...commemorate. Should set a sculptured porpoise, gills a-snort, And vibrant tail, within the templegate. FIRST time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers...since it grew more clean and white, . . . Slow to world -greetings . . quick with its ' Oh, list,' When the angels speak. A ring of amethyst I could... | |
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