 THE LOST LEADER. JUST for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat — Found the one gift of which fortune bereft us, Lost all the others, she lets us devote; They, with the gold to give, doled him out silver...  Selections from [his] Poetical Works - Страница 69написао/ла Robert Browning - 1874Пуни преглед - О овој књизи
 | 1879 - 562 страница
...then he fluttered the leaf back almost to the beginning of the volume and began to read abruptly — " Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coatFound the one gift of which fortune bereft us, Lost all the others she lets us devote ; " The scorn... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 488 страница
...was dead ! LONGFELLOW. THE LOST LEADER. JUST for a handful of silver he left us; Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat; Found the one gift of which...lets us devote. They, with the gold to give, doled 224 225 So much was theirs who so little allowed. How all our copper had gone for his service ! Rags... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 584 страница
...handful of silver he leu us; Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat; Found the one gift of which fortunt bereft us, Lost all the others she lets us devote. They, with the gold to give, doled 224 225 So much was theirs who so little allowed. How all our copper had gone fo"r his service ! Rags... | |
 | Mrs. C. D. Field - 1881 - 232 страница
...Jimmy Butler and the Owl 208 91. Bay Billy.— Frank H. Garsaway 211 NEW SELECTIONS CHOICE REA.D1NGS. THE LOST LEADER. Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat, — Pound the one gift of which fortune bereft us, Lost all the others... | |
 | Louisa M. Hubbard - 1881 - 418 страница
...DOUBLE ACROSTIC. MY first demands my second ; yet without My first my second would be dull, I doubt. 1. 'Just for a handful of silver he left us; Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat.' 2. ' Kneel down, my squire ; ' The blow fell light. ' Rise up, Sir John... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1882 - 330 страница
...counsellors ; what counsel they ? (Chotus) "Boot, saddle, to horse, and away !" THE LOST LEADER. X JUST for a handful of silver he left us, Just for...bereft us, Lost all the others, she lets us devote ; How all our copper had gone for his service ! Rags — were they purple, his heart had been proud... | |
 | Annie Keary - 1882 - 630 страница
...then he fluttered the leaf back almost to the beginning of the volume and began to read abruptly : Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for...bereft us, Lost all the others she lets us devote. The scoru in his voice, while he was reading the first verse, and a yearning pathos that crept into... | |
 | William James Linton, Richard Henry Stoddard - 1883 - 394 страница
...state. Since when indeed I have been proud, and said — My Love ! my own ! ROBERT BROWNING. 1812— THE LOST LEADER. Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat ; Found the one gift of which Fortune bereft us, ' Lost all the others... | |
 | Appleton Morgan, Charlotte Endymion Porter - 1892 - 296 страница
...God's in his heaven, All's right with the world," or, " All service ranks the same with God," or, " Just for a handful of silver he left us. Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat." But even these are not yet " familiar " in the sense in which that word... | |
 | George William Rusden - 1883 - 724 страница
...the text were read. " What say you now ?" said the friend. " I give him up," quoth the editor. 1 " Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat" ' The Lost Leader.' — BB BROWNING. Steadfast only to betray, he quarrelled... | |
| |
