The Podestas Daughter And Other Miscellaneous Poems
The book The Podestas Daughter And Other Miscellaneous Poems was written by author Boker, George H. (George Henry), 1823-1890 Here you can read free online of The Podestas Daughter And Other Miscellaneous Poems book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Podestas Daughter And Other Miscellaneous Poems a good or bad book?
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Not a word Nor sign of greeting did he make to me : One flash of his dark eyes along the path A look which crossed my person as if I Were rock, or tree, or mere transparent air And then his haughty nature towered aloft, Magnificent as sunrise, calm as fate. Back through the thicket, deigning not to part The netted branches with his hand, he strode, Wrapped in the grandeur of his boundless pride. But other shapes his refluent passion took THE PODESTA S DAUGHTER. 31 Ere his heart settled ; for th...e servants said The house became a bedlam. In his wrath He slashed the pictures which poor Griulia loved, Tore up the missals, hacked the carved screen, And with his impious hand sheer through the glass Of the great window through the very Christ Hurled a great oaken settle, overweight For two stout yeomen. Said the old duke naught? Yes, merely this "Let all the pictures hang, Spread out the books, cover the screen no more, Let heaven have entrance through the broken panes : These wrecks shall be Count Odo s monuments The guide-posts pointing him to better things.
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