| Anna Callender Brackett - 1881 - 348 sidor
...riseth ! Do but mark — her forehead's smoother Than words that soothe her ! And from her arched brows such a grace Sheds itself through the face, As alone...seen but a bright lily grow, Before rude hands have touched it ? Have you marked but the fall of the snow, Before the soil hath smutched it ? Have you... | |
| Mary Wilder Tileston - 1881 - 210 sidor
...riseth ! Do but mark ! her forehead's smoother Than words that soothe her ! And from her arched brows such a grace Sheds itself through the face As alone...seen but a bright lily grow, Before rude hands have touched it ? Have you marked but the fall of the snow, Before the soil hath smutched it ? Sonnet. ;... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1881 - 1000 sidor
...riseth ! Do but mark, her forehead's smoother Than words that soothe her! And from her arched brows, each needful product flies, For all the luxuries the world supplies. While thus the land adorned mile hands have touched it T Have yon marked but the fall o' the snow Before the soil hath smutched... | |
| Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 sidor
...riseth ! Do but mark, her forehead's smoother Than words that sooth her ! And from her arched brows, such a grace Sheds itself through the face, As alone...triumphs to the life All the gain, all the good, of the element's strife. Have you seen but a bright lily grow ; Before rude hands have touched it ? Have you... | |
| William Mellen Chamberlain - 1881 - 408 sidor
...bright As eve's star when it riseth. And from her arched brow such a grace Sheds itself through her face, — As alone there triumphs to the life, All...the gain, all the good, of the elements' strife.'" Alice flushed with pleasure as she turned toward Helen, whose look had changed to one of surprise and... | |
| Charles Anderson Dana - 1882 - 906 sidor
...riseth ! Do but mark, her forehead 's smoother Than words that soothe her ! And from her arched brows such a grace Sheds itself through the face, As alone...seen but a bright lily grow. Before rude hands have touched it t Have you marked but the fall of the snow, Before the soil hath smutched itt Have you felt... | |
| Ezra Pound, Marcella Spann - 1964 - 388 sidor
...riseth! Do but mark, her forehead's smoother Than words that soothe her; And from her arched brows, such a grace Sheds itself through the face, As alone...seen but a bright lily grow Before rude hands have touched it? Ha' you marked but the fall o' the snow Before the soil hath smutched it? Have you felt... | |
| Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 sidor
...ardour and the passion, Gives the lover weight and fashion. (1. 1-12) JCP; PoEL-2; QFR; SeCP; SeCV-1 2 ON; FaPoR; FF; FPL; GN; NOBA; OBAL; OBCA; PAH; PoLF; TrGrPo touch'd it? Have you mark'd but the fall of the snow Before the soil hath smutch'd it? Have you felt... | |
| Judith Moore - 1998 - 350 sidor
...up and down, scratches branches against our windows. Her high heels click down the hall; she sings, "Have you seen but a bright lily grow, before rude hands have touched it?" I reach up, grab his nose, then squirm, turn around, get on my knees, put my arms around... | |
| Peter Stoicheff - 1995 - 234 sidor
...(echoes of Chaucer's line "Subdue thyself, and others thee shall hear" follow the passage, of Jonson's "Have you seen but a bright lily grow, / Before rude hands have touched it?" precede it) does not yield this interpretation easily, either to the reader or, more significantly,... | |
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