 Take the cloak from his face, and at first Let the corpse do its worst. How he lies in his rights of a man ! Death has done all death can. And absorbed in the new life he leads, He recks not, he heeds Nor his wrong nor my vengeance — both strike On...  The Living Age - Page 1931912Full view - About this book
 | 1902 - 742 pages
...the face of a dead enemy will have something of the feeling of the duellist in Browning's poem : " I would we were boys as of old, In the field, by the...God's patience, man's scorn, Were so easily borne." But there is one side of the love of death which has only in our own days attained to self-consciousness,... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1856 - 386 pages
...the new life he leads, He recks not, he heeds Nor his wrong nor my vengeance — both strike On his senses alike, And are lost in the solemn and strange...Were so easily borne. I stand here now, he lies in his place — Cover the face. IN THREE DAYS. So, I shall see her in three days And just one night,... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1860 - 458 pages
...for Julian's friendship as a means of helping him to higher aims; and he remembered the lines— " I would we were boys as of old, In the field, by the...God's patience, man's scorn, Were so easily borne." So his thoughts ran on, but when it occurred to him that no such humiliation on his part would perhaps... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1860 - 432 pages
...Julian's friendship as a means of helping him to higher aims; and he remembered the lines— • " I would we were boys as of old, In the field, by the...outrage, God's patience, man's scorn, Were so easily bome." So his thoughts ran on, but when it occurred to him that no such humiliation on his part would... | |
 | 1862 - 268 pages
...set a combat them between To fight it in the dawing." '' Ua! what avails death to erase His offense, my disgrace? I would we were boys as of old In the field, by tho fclil— His outrage, God's patience, man's scorn Were so easily borne." BETWEEN eleven and twelve... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1863 - 360 pages
...the new life he leads, He recks not, he heeds Nor his wrong nor my vengeance — both strike On his senses alike, And are lost in the solemn and strange...God's patience, man's scorn Were so easily borne. IN THREE DAYS. 1. So, I shall see her in three days And just one night, but nights are short, Then... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1866 - 120 pages
...the new life he leads, He recks not, he heeds Nor his wrong nor my vengeance, — both strike On his senses alike, And are lost in the solemn and strange...what avails death to erase His offence, my disgrace 1 I would we were boys as of old In the field, by the fold, — His outrage, God's patience, man's... | |
 | 1867 - 832 pages
...the new lite he leads, He recks not, he heeds Nor his wrong nor my vengeance— both strike On his senses alike, And are lost in the solemn and strange...Were so easily borne. I stand here now, he lies in his place : Cover the face." Specimens of his power over spirited lively rhythm will be found in the... | |
 | 1871 - 314 pages
...the new life he leads, He recks not, he heeds Nor his wrong nor my vengeance, — both strike On his senses alike, And are lost in the solemn and strange...Were so easily borne. I stand here now, he lies in his place, — Cover the face. IN THREE DAYS. SO, I shall see her in three days And just one night,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1871 - 820 pages
...the new life he leads, He recks not, he heeds Nor his wrongs nor my vengeance— both strike On his senses alike, And are lost in the solemn and strange...Were so easily borne. " I stand here now, he lies in his place : Cover the face." The music of this poem is not of the old familiar sort, like that of "The... | |
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