 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
 | Robert Browning - 1895 - 1066 страница
...intellectual superiority. " Faithfully yours, " UOBKKT BKOWHIN»." Ji'BT for a handful of silver be left us. Just for a riband to stick in his coat — Found the one gift of which fortune bereft us. Inert all the others she let* us devote ; They, with the gold to give, doled him out silver, So much... | |
 | Annie Keary - 1895 - 632 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 iiis coat — Found the one gift of which fortune bereft u», Lost all the others she lets us devote.... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1895 - 440 страница
...(the burgesses voted by common consent) Was no more than his due who brought good news from Ghent. 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... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1895 - 802 страница
...brought good news from Ghent. 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 Lost all the others she lets us devote ; They, with the gold to give, dol'd him out silver, So much... | |
 | Samuel Silas Curry - 1895 - 316 страница
...the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present. "A Defence of Poetry." _____ Shelley. 119 JUST for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat. 120 HEW down the bridge, Sir Consul, with all the speed ye may; I, with... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1896 - 566 страница
...to the quick, he said : " I 'm killed, Sire ! " And his chief beside, Smiling the boy fell dead. 40 THE LOST LEADER. JUST for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat — r'ound the one gift of which fortune bereft us, Lost all the others, she lets us devote ; They,... | |
 | 1896 - 1148 страница
...stern and sorrowful rebuke." " This poem," observes Mr. Kennedy, " has been compared to Browning's ' Lost Leader : ' ' Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat — * * * * lie alone breaks from the van and the freemen, He alone sinks to the rear and the slaves.... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1890 - 524 страница
..."Nay," the soldier's pride Touched to the quick, he said, " I 'm killed, sire ! " And his chief beside, 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... | |
 | American Historical Association - 1896 - 1270 страница
...Europe, and performing the greatest actions of the career which culminated at Waterloo. Robert Browning's "Lost Leader" — " Just for a handful of silver, he left us, Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat. We shall march prospering, not through his presence; Sons may inspirit... | |
 | Arthur Christopher Benson - 1896 - 336 страница
...temptations of the busy, ordinary world we cannot say. Somehow we have lost our poet. It seems that, Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat. And the singer of an April mood, who might have bloomed year after year... | |
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