Knelt beside you on the sod, For your beauty thanking God, — For your teaching, ye should see us Bowing in prostration new ! Whence arisen, — if one or two Drops be on our cheeks — O world, they are not tears but dew. THE LADY'S YES. " YES," I answered... Poems - Page 385by Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1853Full view - About this book
| 1813 - 410 pages
...mightily fell That it jerked the philosopher out of his cell. THE LADY'S YES. ELIZABETH B. BROWNING. "Yes," I answered you last night; "No," this morning, sir, I say: Colors seen by candle-light Will not look the same by day. When the viols played their best, Lamps... | |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1844 - 290 pages
...mountain peak, Yet live low along the ground, beside the grasses meek ! Mountain gorses ! since Linnaeus Knelt beside you on the sod, For your beauty thanking...cheeks— O world! they are not tears, but dew. THE DEAD PAN. Excited by Schiller's " Gb'tter Griechenlands," and partly founded on a well-known tradition... | |
| 1844 - 638 pages
...how great individuality of power in the poet may overmaster the plainest and commonest material. " THE LADY'S YES.* " Yes !" I answered you last night ; " No !" this morning, Sir, I say ! Colors, seen by candle-light, Will not look the same by day. When the tnbors played Ihcir best, Lamps... | |
| 1846 - 302 pages
...and angered the Man in the Moon. — Lowell Offering. THE LADY'S YES. BY ELIZABETH BARRRTT BABRRTT. " Yes !" I answered you last night ; " No !" this morning, Sir, I say ! Colors, seen by candle- light, Will not look the same by day. Loce me sounded like a jest, Fit for... | |
| Thomas Powell - 1849 - 328 pages
...Pythoness, her fit having passed away, as the English maiden in her bower, singing a pleasant song. THE LADY'S "YES." " ' Yes,' I answered you last night ; ' No ' — this morning, sir, I say ; Colors seen by candle light Will not look the same by day. When the tabers played their best, Lamps... | |
| Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1849 - 310 pages
...sun-glimpse through a shower; A watery ray an instant seen, Then darkly closing clouds between. Scott. 35. " Yes ! " I answered you last night ; " No ! " this morning, sir, I say ! Flowers, seen by candle-light, Will not look the same by day. Miss Barrett. 36. O ! as the bee upon... | |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1850 - 596 pages
...peak, Yet live low along the ground, beside the grasses meek I IV. Mountain gorses, since Linnaeus Knelt beside you on the sod, For your beauty thanking...cheeks — O world ! they are not tears, but dew. 392 THE LADY'S YES. "YES," I answered you last night ; " No," this morning, sir, I say. Colours seen... | |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1850 - 318 pages
...breaks the chain, — For this sense of present sweetness, — And this yearning to completeness !" THE LADY'S "YES." " YES !" I answered you last night ; " No !" this morning, Sir, I say ! Colors, seen by candle-light, Will not look the same by day. When the tabors played their best, Lamps... | |
| Thomas Powell - 1851 - 216 pages
...Pythoness, her fit having passed away, as the English maiden in her bower, singing a pleasant song. THE LADY'S " YES." ' Yes,' I answered you last night...No'— this morning, sir, I say ; Colours seen by candle light Will not look the same by day. When the tabors played their best, Lamps above, and laughs... | |
| Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1852 - 358 pages
...mountain peak, Yet live low along the ground, beside the grasses meek ! Mountain Gorses ! since LinnaBus Knelt beside you on the sod, For your beauty thanking God, — For your beauty, ye should see us Bowing in prostration new, — Whence arisen, if one or two Drops be on our... | |
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