 | Robert Browning - 1850 - 436 pages
...for his love, and stand, Paying a price, at his right hand ? II.— MADHOUSE CELL. PORPHYRIA'S LOVER. THE rain set early in to-night, The sullen wind was soon awake, It tore the elm-tops down for spite, And did its worst to vex the lake, I listened with heart fit to break ; When... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1864 - 436 pages
...for his love, and stand, Paying a price, at his right hand ? II.— MADHOUSE CELL. PORPHYBIA'S LOVER. THE rain set early in to-night, , The sullen wind was soon awake, It tore the elm-tops down for spite,. And did its worst to vex the lake, I listened with heart fit to break ; When... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1880 - 392 pages
...how otherwise had come to pass That Victor rules, this present year, in Rome ? PORPHYRIA'S LOVER. i. THE rain set early in to-night, The sullen wind was soon awake, It tore the elm-tops down for spite, And did its worst to vex the lake, I listened with heart fit to break. ii.... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1882 - 328 pages
...a vice, I sav. You of the virtue (we issue join) How strive you ? De te,fabula / PORPHYRIA'S LOVER. THE rain set early in to-night, The sullen wind was soon awake, It tore the elm-tops down for spite, And did its worst to vex the lake, I listened with heart fit to break. When... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1886 - 344 pages
...PORPHYIUA'S LOvER. THE rain set early in to-night, The sullen wind w;vs soon awake, It tore the elm-tops down for spite, And did its worst to vex the lake,...to break. When glided in Porphyria ; straight She shtu the cold out and the storm. And kneeled, and made the cheerless grate Blaze up, and all the cottage... | |
 | Arthur Symons - 1886 - 232 pages
...Lover : — " The rain set early in to-night, The sullen wind was soon awake, It tore the elm-tops down for spite, And did its worst to vex the lake,...with heart fit to break. When glided in Porphyria." There, in five lines, is the scene and the mood, and in the sixth line Porphyria may enter. Take a... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1886 - 626 pages
...for his love, and stand, Paying a price, at his right hand ? IL— MADHOUSE CELL. PORPHYRIA'S LOVER. THE rain set early in to-night, The sullen wind was soon awake, It tore the elm-tops down for spite, And did its worst to vex the lake, I listened with heart fit to break ; When... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1887 - 318 pages
...how otherwise had come to pass That Victor rules, this present year, in Rome ? PORPHYRIES LOVER. I THE rain set early in to-night, The sullen wind was soon awake, It tore the elm-tops down for spite, And did its worst to vex the lake, l listened with heart fit to break. II... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1887 - 428 pages
...vice, I say. You of the virtue (we issue join) How strive you ? De te, fabula ! PORPHYRIA'S LOVER. The rain set early in to-night, The sullen wind was soon awake, It tore the elm-tops down for spite, And did its worst to vex the lake, I listened with heart fit to break. When... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1889 - 852 pages
..." good gigantic smile o' the brown old earth " makes faith ~i'1l possible. In Porphyria's Lover — The rain set early in to-night, The sullen wind was soon awake, It tore the elm-tops down for spite, And did its worst to vex the lake. Nature unruly and diseased portends the... | |
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LOVER. THE rain set early in to-night, The sullen wind was soon awake, It tore the elm-tops down for spite, And did its worst to vex the lake, I listened with heart fit to break. When glided in Porphyria... 
