The Golden LegendTicknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 - 301 pages |
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Page 11
... through the corridor Just stirs the curtain , and no more , And , touching the æolian strings , Faints with the burden that it brings ! Come back ! ye friendships long departed ! That like 11 THE CASTLE OF VAUTSBERG ON THE RHINE. ...
... through the corridor Just stirs the curtain , and no more , And , touching the æolian strings , Faints with the burden that it brings ! Come back ! ye friendships long departed ! That like 11 THE CASTLE OF VAUTSBERG ON THE RHINE. ...
Page 15
... bring LUCIFER . Yes ; very nearly . And , what is a wiser and better thing , Can keep the living from ever needing Such an unnatural , strange proceeding , By showing conclusively and clearly That death is a stupid blunder merely , And ...
... bring LUCIFER . Yes ; very nearly . And , what is a wiser and better thing , Can keep the living from ever needing Such an unnatural , strange proceeding , By showing conclusively and clearly That death is a stupid blunder merely , And ...
Page 55
... bring these roses . I gathered them at the cross Whereon I died for thee ! Come , for my Father calls . Thou art my elected bride ! " And the Sultan's daughter Followed him to his Father's garden . PRINCE HENRY . Wouldst thou have done ...
... bring these roses . I gathered them at the cross Whereon I died for thee ! Come , for my Father calls . Thou art my elected bride ! " And the Sultan's daughter Followed him to his Father's garden . PRINCE HENRY . Wouldst thou have done ...
Page 58
... Bring the lamp , Elsie . Dost thou hear ? In a moment ! ELSIE , within . GOTTLIEB . Where are Bertha and Max ? URSULA . They are sitting with Elsie at the door . She is telling them stories of the wood , And the Wolf , and Little Red ...
... Bring the lamp , Elsie . Dost thou hear ? In a moment ! ELSIE , within . GOTTLIEB . Where are Bertha and Max ? URSULA . They are sitting with Elsie at the door . She is telling them stories of the wood , And the Wolf , and Little Red ...
Page 86
... , And such as often brings me here In the hottest and most pestilential season . To - day , I come for another reason ; To foster and ripen an evil thought In a heart that is almost to madness wrought , 86 THE GOLDEN LEGEND .
... , And such as often brings me here In the hottest and most pestilential season . To - day , I come for another reason ; To foster and ripen an evil thought In a heart that is almost to madness wrought , 86 THE GOLDEN LEGEND .
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Page 239 - And even as children, who have much offended A too indulgent father, in great shame, Penitent, and yet not daring unattended To go into his presence, at the gate Speak with their sister, and confiding wait Till she goes in before and intercedes; So men, repenting of their evil deeds, And yet not venturing rashly to draw near With their requests an angry father's ear, Offer to her their prayers and their confession, And she for them in heaven makes intercession. And if our faith had given us nothing...
Page 239 - THE INN AT GENOA. A terrace overlooking the sea. Night. PRINCE HENRY. IT is the sea, it is the sea, In all its vague immensity, Fading and darkening in the distance ! Silent, majestical, and slow, The white ships haunt it to and fro, With all their ghostly sails unfurled, As phantoms from...
Page 9 - Not to be cured, yet not incurable ! The only remedy that remains Is the blood that flows from a maiden's veins, \ Who of her own free will shall die, And give her life as the price of yours...
Page 34 - Rose an odor sweet and fragrant Of the wild-flowers and the vagrant Vines that wandered, Seeking the sunshine, round and round. These he heeded not, but pondered On the volume in his hand, A volume of Saint Augustine, Wherein he read of the unseen Splendors of God's great town In the unknown land, And, with his eyes cast down In humility, he said : " I believe, O God. What herein I have read, But alas ! I do not understand...
Page 289 - With sullen heat, As a storm-cloud lurid with lightning. And a cry of lamentation, Repeated and again repeated, Deep and loud As the reverberation Of cloud answering unto cloud, Swells and rolls away in the distance, As if the sheeted Lightning retreated, Baffled and thwarted by the wind's resistance. It is Lucifer, The son of mystery ; And since God suffers him to be, He, too, is God's minister, And labors for some good By us not understood ! SECOND INTERLUDE MARTIN LUTHER A chamber in the Wartburg.
Page 36 - Fall on the golden flagging of the street. And he would fain Have caught the wondrous bird, But strove in vain ; For it flew away, away, Far over hill and dell, And instead of its sweet singing He heard the convent bell Suddenly in the silence ringing For the service of noonday. And he retraced His pathway homeward sadly and in haste.