Echoes from Kottabos
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217465991
Paperback|9780217465991
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: NESSUN MAGGIOR DOLORE No greater grief Is it then always grief Remembering happier times in times of sorrow ? Does one day of delight ne'er bring relief To the sick soul on a despairful morrow ? Past joys are a possession. Oft we borrow Strength for our present pain from out the brief Bright moments garner'd long in memory's sheaf: August's rich grains make glad December's furrow. Have mine eyes once with any wealth been blest Of coast, sea, sky, or heaven-suggesting face; Mine ears drunk highest music when she sung Who was my life of life, whose gentle breast From the world's rush was my one resting place;? Blind, deaf, and old, I see, hear, still am young. NEVER (after De Musset) Never, you said to me the other night, While the sad music fill'd the air with sighs; Never, you said, while in your own despite Love lit the azure sadness of your eyes. Never, you said again with accent low, And mournful smile, as smiles the marble, pale; But the proud thought of what you might bestow Veil'd you with blushes, as a jealous veil. Oh, what a word, and what a world of woe I did not see the fair face all aglow, Or the pale smile when to my lips love rose; Fair was the face, but than the soul less fair, On this I gazed, my love was centred there? And yet I saw your heart close as a flower doth close. BALLAD OF GRAF BROM Old Graf Brom is dying at last, He's alone in his room, and sinking fast; And his shutter is push'd by the bluff night blast Howling oh wul lul?lul lul lul lo?ho ho Howling oh wul lul?lul lul lul?lo His lips are gluey, extremities cold, His nose is pinch'd, and the life-blood roll'd With a slow, dull beat, like a bell that is toll'd, With a dead wul lul?lul lul?lo Tis dismal...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217465991 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217465994 |
| Weight | 0.90 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.62 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 274 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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