 Though they live twice the length of my whole life, And, as they fancy, happily all the same. There I lay, then, all my great fortnight long, As if it would continue, broaden out Happily more and more, and lead to heaven : Christmas before me, — was...  Christian Examiner and Theological Review - Page 3051869Full view - About this book
 | 1869 - 386 pages
...contained in the next book of the poem. Pompilia's story is the most touching passage in the literature of our time. The only other passages that will compare...crowning glory of her life. See how it shapes itself: — " O lover of my life ! 0 soldier-saint, No work begun shall ever pause for death ! Love will be... | |
 | 1869 - 388 pages
...into a laugh at me, but stay For evermore, eternally, quite mine." And speaking of his birth, she1 says, that, as the time for it drew nigh, — " Nobody...crowning glory of her life. See how it shapes itself: — " O lover of my life ! O soldier-saint, No work begun shall ever pause for death ! Love will be... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1869 - 368 pages
...heaven : Christmas before me, — was not that a chance ? I never realized God's birth before — 1690 How he grew likest God in being born. This time I...had my babe Lying a little on my breast like hers. So all went on till, just four days ago — The night and the tap. 1695 O it shall be success To the... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1869 - 346 pages
...heaven : Christmas before me, — was not that a chance ? I never realized God's birth before — 1690 How he grew likest God in being born. This time I...had my babe Lying a little on my breast like hers. So all went on till, just four days ago — The night and the tap. 1695 O it shall be success To the... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1872 - 266 pages
...heaven : Christmas before me, — was not that a chance ? I never realized God's birth before — 1690 How He grew likest God in being born. This time I felt like Mary, had my babe VOL. IIL II Lying a little on my breast like hers. So all went on till, just four days ago — The... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton - 1880 - 434 pages
...longs." And then observe how finely the religious passion of the mother's heart is expressed : — " I never realized God's birth before — How he grew...had my babe Lying a little on my breast like hers." And this, again, for the spiritual perfection of maternal love, is scarcely equalled in our language... | |
 | Browning Society (London, England) - 1889 - 316 pages
...more and more, and lead to Heaven : Christmas before me,—was not that a chance ? I never realised God's birth before— How He grew likest God in being...had my babe Lying a little on my breast like hers." And how touching are the lines where, in speaking of her own death, she adds— '' Even for my babe,... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1883 - 670 pages
...heaven : Christmas before me, — was not that a chance ? I never realized God's birth before — 1690 How he grew likest God in being born. This time I felt like Mary, had my babe Lying a Tittle on my breast like hers. So all went on till, just four days ago — The night and the tap. 1695... | |
 | Arthur Symons - 1886 - 248 pages
...here are two or three most tender and touching lines. Pompilia is speaking of the birth of her babe. " A whole long fortnight : in a life like mine A fortnight...had my babe Lying a little on my breast like hers. " With a beautiful and holy confidence she now " lays away her babe with God," secure for him in the... | |
 | Arthur Symons - 1886 - 236 pages
...would continue, broaden out Happily more and more, and lead to heaven : Christmas before me,—was not that a chance? I never realized God's birth before—...had my babe Lying a little on my breast like hers." With a beautiful and holy confidence she now " lays away her babe with God," secure for him in the... | |
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