Ranolf and Amohia: A Dream of Two Lives, Volume 2

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K. Paul, Trench & Company, 1883
 

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Page 331 - IN forma dunque di candida rosa Mi si mostrava la milizia santa, Che nel suo sangue CRISTO fece sposa ; Ma l' altra, che volando vede e canta La gloria di colui che la innamora, E la bontà che la fece cotanta, Sì come schiera d' api, che s' infiora Una fiata, ed una si ritorna Là dove suo lavoro s' insapora, Nel gran fior discendeva, che s...
Page 332 - Nel gran fior discendeva che s' adorna Di tante foglie , e quindi risaliva Là dove il suo amor sempre soggiorna. Le facce tutte avean di fiamma viva, E l' ali d' oro, el* altro tanto bianco Che nulla neve a quel termine arriva. Quando scendean nel fior di banco in banco , Porgevan della pace e dell...
Page 36 - ... yet emerged the same, it seemed, In hue divine and melting balm, In many a Lake whose crystal calm Uncrisped, unwrinkled, scarcely gleamed ; Where Sky above and Lake below Would like one sphere of azure show, Save for the circling belt alone, The softly-painted purple zone Of mountains — bathed where nearer seen In sunny tints of sober green With velvet dark of woods between, All glossy glooms and shifting sheen ; While here and there, some peak of snow Would o'er their tenderer violet lean....
Page 56 - Cliffs damp with dark-green moss — their slopes All crimson-stained with blots and streaks — White-mottled and vermilion-rusted. And in the midst, beneath a cloud That ever upward rolls and reeks And hides the sky with its dim shroud, Look where upshoots a fuming fount — Up through a blue and boiling pool Perennial — a great sapphire steaming, In that coralline crater gleaming. Upwelling ever, amethystal, Ebullient comes the bubbling crystal ! Still growing cooler and more cool As down the...
Page 55 - Stand rigid, mute and motionless ! No faintest murmur — not a sound — Relieves that Cataract's hush profound ; No tiniest bubble, not a flake Of floating foam is seen to break The smoothness where it meets the Lake : Along that shining surface move No ripples ; not the slightest swell Rolls o'er the mirror darkly green, Where, every feature limned so well — Pale, silent, and serene as death — The Cataract's image hangs beneath The Cataract — but not more serene, More phantom-silent than...
Page 338 - I rank it under nothing — taken altogether — nothing that has appeared in my day and generation for subtle yet clear writing about subjects of all others the most urgent for expression, and the least easy in treatment; while the affluence of illustration, and dexterity in bringing to bear upon the story every possible aid from every imaginable quarter, and that with such treasures, new and old, of language, and such continuance of music in modes old and new, — well, I hope I am no more surprised...
Page 50 - She paused a tender moment — then resumed : " Nay, not the Rata ! howsoe'er it bloomed, Paling the crimson sunset ; for, you know, Its twining arms and shoots together grow Around the trunk it clasps, conjoining slow Till they become consolidate, and show An ever-thickening sheath that kills at last The helpless tree round which it clings so fast.
Page 26 - tis a foolish feeling— all this fond, sweet pain! "When I was quite a child— not so many moons ago— A happy little maiden— O, then it was not so; Like a sunny-dancing wavelet then I sparkled to and fro; And I never had this feeling— O, this sad, sweet pain!
Page 338 - Places,' you can readily imagine how much they delight me. I have taken the liberty of making many extracts for the volume entitled ' Oceanica.' . . . " With great regard, Yours faithfully, "HENRY W. LONGFELLOW.
Page 57 - O'er all the scene — and every phase The current takes as down it strays. They note where'er, by step or stair, By brimming bath, on hollow reef Or hoary plain, its magic rain Can reach a branch, a flower, a leaf — The branching spray, leaf, blossom gay, Are blanched and stiffened into stone ! So round about lurks tracery strewn Of daintiest-moulded...

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