| James Weber Linn - 1911 - 292 pages
...assure Life of health, and days mature: 25 Woman's self in miniature! Limbs so fair, they might supply The sculptor to make Beauty by. Or did the stern-eyed Fate descry 30 That babe or mother, one must die; So in mercy left the stock And cut the branch ; to save the shock... | |
| Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - English poetry - 1912 - 1104 pages
...changed her mind, Just when she had exactly wrought A finish'd pattern without fault ? Could she flag, or could she tire, Or lack'd she the Promethean fire...imagery) The sculptor to make Beauty by. Or did the stem-eyed Fate descry That babe or mother, one must die ; So in mercy left the stock And cut the branch... | |
| Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1912 - 502 pages
...finish'd pattern without fault ? Could she flag, or could she tire, Or lack'd she the Promethean fire 25 (With her nine moons' long workings sicken'd) That...health, and days mature : Woman's self in miniature ! 30 Limbs so fair, they might supply (Themselves now but cold imagery) The sculptor to make Beauty... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1913 - 436 pages
...changed her mind, Just when she had exactly wrought A finish'd pattern without fault ? Could she flag, or could she tire, Or lack'd she the Promethean fire (With her nine moons' long workings sicken ' d) That should thy little limbs have quicken'd ? Limbs so firm, they seem'd to assure Life... | |
| Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1916 - 416 pages
...changed her mind Just when she had exactly wrought A finish'd pattern without fault ? Could she flag, or could she tire, Or lack'd she the Promethean fire...! Limbs so fair, they might supply (Themselves now hut cold imagery) The sculptor to make Beauty by. Or did the stern-eyed Fate descry That babe or mother,... | |
| Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1917 - 360 pages
...changed her mind Just when she had exactly wrought A finish'd pattern without fault ? Could she flag, or could she tire, Or lack'd she the Promethean fire...cold imagery) The sculptor to make Beauty by. Or did trie stern-eyed Fate descry That babe or mother, one must die; So in mercy left the stock And cut the... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1917 - 856 pages
...moons' long workings sickened) That should thy little limbs have quickened? Limbs so firm, they seemed to assure Life of health, and days mature : Woman's...by. Or did the stern-eyed Fate descry, That babe, or mother,'one must die; So in mercy left the stock, And cut the branch ; to save the shock Of young years... | |
| Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - English poetry - 1918 - 1120 pages
...changed her mind, Just when she had exactly wrought A finish'd pattern without fault ? Could she flag, or could she tire, Or lack'd she the Promethean fire...health, and days mature: Woman's self in miniature 1 670 Limbs so fair, they might supply (Themselves now but cold imagery) The sculptor to nuke Beauty... | |
| Leonard Southerden Wood - Children - 1921 - 396 pages
...changed her mind, Just when she had exactly wrought A finish'd pattern without fault ? Could she flag, or could she tire, Or lack'd she the Promethean fire...sicken'd) That should thy little limbs have quicken'd ? I 'mbs so firm, they seem'd to assure j :£e of health, and days mature : Woman's self in miniature... | |
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