 | Clarence Edward Andrews, Milton Oswin Percival - 1924 - 624 pages
...You of the virtue, (we issue join) How strive you? De te, fabula! 2IO 211 PORPHYRIA'S LOVER [1888.] 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... | |
 | Laurence Binyon - 1924 - 392 pages
...How that great work of Love enhances Nature's. Elizabeth Barrett Browning. XXXIII 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... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1924 - 774 pages
...him — still loftier than the world suspects, Living and dying. R. BROWNING. 347 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, 5... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1925 - 394 pages
...eternity, — And heaven just prove that I and she Ride, ride together, for ever ride ? 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 - 1926 - 294 pages
...say. You of the virtue, (we issue join) How strive you ? De te, fabula ! 250 XXXI. 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. 5... | |
 | Lenora Ledwon - 1996 - 524 pages
...thanks Ken Driggs for sending him the article, and Tedham Porterhouse. Porphyna's Lover Robert Browning 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 frt to break, When... | |
 | Philip Hobsbaum - 1996 - 220 pages
...folk) in the nineteenth century, such as 'Porphyrias Lover' by Robert Browning. This latter begins: The rain set early in tonight, 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 . .... | |
 | Lee Erickson - 1996 - 242 pages
...landscape with that person's character. Take, for instance, the opening lines of "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. (1-4)74 After reading the poem, one realizes... | |
 | Giles R. Youngs - 1998 - 236 pages
...drove me to describe them, often in the middle of the night - for I have become 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 listen' d with heart fit to break. When... | |
 | Lewis Turco - 2000 - 356 pages
...audience is present or assumed to be present. Here is a soliloquy by Robert Browning: Porphyria's Lover The rain set early in tonight; 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... | |
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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... 
