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- A Drama of Exile; And Other Poems
A Drama of Exile And Other Poems
Author:
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1845 Original Publisher: H. G. Langley Subjects: Drama / General Drama / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Drama Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy t
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he General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE TWO SAYINGS. Two sayings of the Holy Scriptures beat Like pulses, in the church's brow and breast; And, by them, we find rest in our unrest, And, heart-deep in salt tears, do yet entreat God's fellowship, as if on Heavenly seat. One is, And Jesus Wept, -- whereon is prest Full many a sobbing face that drops its best And sweetest waters on the record sweet : -- And one is, where the Christ denied and scorned Looked Upon Peter ! Oh, to render plain, By help of having loved a little, and mourned, -- That look of sovran love and sovran pain, Which He who could not sin, yet suffered, turned On him who could reject, but not sustain ! ©- THE LOOK. The Saviour looked on Peter. Ay, no word -- No gesture of reproach ! The Heavens serene, Though heavy with armed justice, did not lean Their thunders that way ! The forsaken Lord Looked only, on the traitor. None record What that look was; none guess: for those who have seen Wronged lovers loving through a death-pang keen, Or pale-cheeked martyrs smiling to a sword, Have missed Jehovah at the judgment-call! And Peter, from the height of blasphemy -- " I never knew this man" -- did quail and fall, As knowing straight That God, -- and turned free, And went out speechless from the face of all, And filled the silence, weeping bitterly. THE MEANING OF THE LOOK. I Think that look of Christ might seem to say -- " Thou Peter ! art thou then a common stone Which I at last must break my heart u...
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ISBN-13:
9781150254482
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1150254483
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12/21/2009
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