ISBN: 9781154403923

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1899. Not … Mehr…

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1899. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... EIGHTH BOOK. ONE eve it happened, when I sate alone, Alone, upon the terrace of my tower, A book upon my knees to counterfeit The reading that I never read at all, While Marian, in the garden down below, Knelt by the fountain I could just hear thrill The drowsy silence of the exhausted day, And peeled a new fig from that purple heap In the grass beside her, turning out the red To feed her eager child (who sucked at it With vehement lips across a gap of air As he stood opposite, face and curb a-flame With that last sun-ray, crying, give me, give, And stamping with imperious baby-feet, We''re all born princes) --something startled me,--? The laugh of sad and innocent souls, that breaks Abruptly, as if frightened at itself. T was Marian laughed. I saw her glance above In sudden shame that I should hear her laugh, And straightway dropped my eyes upon my book, And knew, the first time, ''t was Boccaccio''s tale, The Falcon''s, of the lover who for love Destroyed the best that loved him. Some of us Vol. V. 40 Do it still, and then we sit and laugh no more. Laugh you, sweetMarian,--you''ve the rightto laugh, Since God himself is for you, and a child! For me there''s somewhat less,--and so I sigh. The heavens were making room to hold the night, The sevenfold heavens unfolding all their gates To let the stars out slowly (prophesied In close-approaching advent, not discerned), While still the cue-owls from the cypresses Of the Poggio called and counted every pulse Of the skyey palpitation. Gradually The purple and transparent shadows slow Had filled up the whole valley to the brim, And flooded all the city, which you saw As some drowned city in some enchanted sea, Cut off from nature,--drawing you who gaze, With passionate desire, to leap and plunge And find a ... Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Books, History, Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Poetical Works (Volume 5) Books>History, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781154403923

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1899. Not … Mehr…

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1899. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... EIGHTH BOOK. ONE eve it happened, when I sate alone, Alone, upon the terrace of my tower, A book upon my knees to counterfeit The reading that I never read at all, While Marian, in the garden down below, Knelt by the fountain I could just hear thrill The drowsy silence of the exhausted day, And peeled a new fig from that purple heap In the grass beside her, turning out the red To feed her eager child (who sucked at it With vehement lips across a gap of air As he stood opposite, face and curb a-flame With that last sun-ray, crying, give me, give, And stamping with imperious baby-feet, We''re all born princes) --something startled me,--? The laugh of sad and innocent souls, that breaks Abruptly, as if frightened at itself. T was Marian laughed. I saw her glance above In sudden shame that I should hear her laugh, And straightway dropped my eyes upon my book, And knew, the first time, ''t was Boccaccio''s tale, The Falcon''s, of the lover who for love Destroyed the best that loved him. Some of us Vol. V. 40 Do it still, and then we sit and laugh no more. Laugh you, sweetMarian,--you''ve the rightto laugh, Since God himself is for you, and a child! For me there''s somewhat less,--and so I sigh. The heavens were making room to hold the night, The sevenfold heavens unfolding all their gates To let the stars out slowly (prophesied In close-approaching advent, not discerned), While still the cue-owls from the cypresses Of the Poggio called and counted every pulse Of the skyey palpitation. Gradually The purple and transparent shadows slow Had filled up the whole valley to the brim, And flooded all the city, which you saw As some drowned city in some enchanted sea, Cut off from nature,--drawing you who gaze, With passionate desire, to leap and plunge And find a ... Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Books, History, Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Poetical Works (Volume 5) Books>History <

ISBN: 1154403920

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ISBN: 9781154403923

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