Song and Legend from the Middle AgesWilliam Darnall MacClintock Flood and Vincent, 1893 - 129 pages |
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Page 123 - Alas ! by what sweet thoughts, what fond desire Must they at length to that ill pass have reached!" Then turning, I to them my speech addressed, And thus began : " Francesca ! your sad fate Even to tears my grief and pity moves. But tell me ; in the time of your sweet sighs, By what, and how Love granted, that ye knew Your yet uncertain wishes ?" She replied : " No greater grief than to remember days Of joy, when misery is at hand.
Page 36 - TELL me now in what hidden way is Lady Flora the lovely Roman ? Where's Hipparchia, and where is Thais, Neither of them the fairer woman? Where is Echo, beheld of no man, Only heard on river and mere, — She whose beauty was more than human? But where are the snows of yester-year?
Page 124 - By one so deep in love, then he, who ne'er From me shall separate, at once my lips All trembling kiss'd. The book and writer both Were love's purveyors. In its leaves that day We read no more.
Page 123 - The land/ that gave me birth, Is situate on the coast, where Po descends To rest in ocean with his sequent streams. " Love, that in gentle heart is quickly learnt,* Entangled him by that fair form, from me Ta'en in such cruel sort, as grieves me still : Love, that denial takes from none belov'd,h Caught me with pleasing him so passing well, That, as thou seest, he yet deserts me not.
Page 66 - For neither Spain nor Araby could another charger bring So good as he, and certes. the best befits my King. But that you may behold him, and know him to the core, I'll make him go as he was wont when his nostrils smelt the Moor.
Page 119 - After writing this sonnet, it was given unto me to behold a very wonderful vision; wherein I saw things which determined me that I would say nothing further of this most blessed one, until such time as I could discourse more worthily concerning her. And to this end I labour all I can; as she well knoweth.
Page 132 - Attemper'd, at his rising, that the eye Long while endured the sight: thus, In a cloud Of flowers, that from those hands angelic rose, And down within and outside of the car Fell showering, In white veil with olive wreathed, A virgin in my view...
Page 67 - cried the Lords — but when they looked again, They saw Ruy Diaz ruling him with the fragment of his rein ; They saw him proudly ruling with gesture firm and calm, Like a true lord commanding— and obeyed as by a lamb. And so he led him foaming and panting to the King — But
Page 119 - BEYOND the sphere which spreads to widest space Now soars the sigh that my heart sends above ; A new perception born of grieving Love Guideth it upward the untrodden ways. When it hath reached...
Page 122 - As doves By fond desire invited, on wide wings And firm, to their sweet nest returning home Cleave the air, wafted by their will along ; Thus...