 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
 | Irene Cooper Willis - 1928 - 104 pages
...poetess bearable and redeems from commonplaceness, and perhaps from comicality, such lines as: First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers...write; And ever since, it grew more clean and white and I never gave a lock of hair away To a man, dearest, except this to thee. But, unless it can be... | |
 | Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson - 1928 - 230 pages
...Browning has been kissed for the first time and she writes : First time he kiss'd me, he but only kiss'd The fingers of this hand wherewith I write ; And ever since it grew more clear and white, Slow to world-greetings, quick with its " Oh list " When the angels speak, etc. Well,... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1988 - 356 pages
...Should set a sculptured porpoise, gills a-snort And vibrant tail, within the temple-gate. XXXVIII First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers...Than that first kiss. The second passed in height The 6rst, and sought the forehead, and half missed, Half falling on the hair. O beyond meed! That was the... | |
 | Masson - 1995 - 228 pages
...With darkness and the death-hour rounding it. ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Rrst time he kissed me First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers...not wear here, plainer to my sight, Than that first loss. The second passed in height The first, and sought the forehead, and half missed, Half falling... | |
 | Sourcebooks, Inc Staff - 2002 - 388 pages
...intense than the REQUITING of it. — Gail Godwin r ff First time he KISSED me, he but onlv kissed j The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning You learn LOVE by loving — by paying attention and doing what one... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 848 pages
...Should set a sculptured porpoise, gills a-snort And vibrant tail, within the temple-gate. XXXVIII. FIRST } _ ] b +_ +u )o r 4 > xu '_gRq |f Y zrp o M 4< 韘 Dp When the angels speak." A ring of amethyst I could not wear here, plainer to my sight, Than that first... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1106 pages
...'Neathmasterrhands, from instruments defaced, — And great souls, at one stroke, may do and doat. FIRST : Happy if their track " 0 list ! " When the angels speak. A ring of amethyst I could not wear here, plainer to my sight Than... | |
 | James D. McCabe - 1884 - 948 pages
...the second with the fourth and sixth. The following will show the construction of the sonnet : First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers...ever since, it grew more clean and white. Slow to world greetings . . quick with its " Oh, list I * When the angels speak. A ring of amethyst I I could... | |
 | George R. Graham, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Jacobs Peterson, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Robert Taylor Conrad, Joseph Ripley Chandler, Bayard Taylor - 1851 - 1060 pages
...cannot resist the temptation of quoting, we close our extracts from these magical little pieces : First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers...wherewith I write, And ever since it grew more clean and whiteSlow to world-greetings — quick with its " oh, list," When the angel's speak. A ring of amethyst... | |
 | George R. Graham, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Jacobs Peterson, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Robert Taylor Conrad, Joseph Ripley Chandler, Bayard Taylor - 1851 - 1060 pages
...these magical little pieces : Slow to wo r Id -greeting s — quick with ils "olí, list," First timo he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write, And ever since it grew moro clean und white — Tho first, mid sought the forehead, end half missed, Hull* lulling on the... | |
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