Poems, Including the Saint's Tragedy, Andromeda, Songs and C. Collected Ed

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ...point of honour To clutch his prey, till it shall wake and move? We'll waive that question: there's eternity To answer that in. How like a marble-carven nun she lies Who prays with folded palms upon her tomb, Until the resurrection! Fair and holy! Oh, happy Lewis! Had I been a knight--A man at all--What's this? I must be brutal, Or I shall love her: and yet that's no safeguard; I have marked it oft: ay--with that devilish triumph Which eyes its victim's writhings, still will mingle A sympathetic thrill of lust--say, pity. Eliz. (awaking). I am heard! She is saved! Where am I? What! have I overslept myself? Oh, do not beat me! I will tell you all--. I have had awful dreams of the other world. 1St Woman. Ay! ay! a fine excuse for lazy women, Who cry night-mare with lying on their backs. Eliz. I will be heard! I am a prophetess! God hears me, why not ye? CON. Quench not the spirit: If He have spoken, daughter, we must listen. Eliz. Methought from out the red and heaving earth My mother rose, whose broad and queenly limbs A fiery arrow did impale, and round Pursuing tongues oozed up of nether fire, And fastened on her: like a winter-blast Among the steeples, then she shrieked aloud, "Pray for me, daughter; save me from this torment, For thou canst save!" And then she told a tale; It was not true--my mother was not such--Oh God! The pander to a brother's sin! Ist Woman. There now? The truth is out! I told you, sister, About that mother--Con. Silence, hags! what then? Eliz. She stretched her arms, and sank. Was it a sin To love that sinful mother? There I lay--And in the spirit far away I prayed; What words I spoke, I know not, nor how long; Until a small still voice sighed, " Child, thou art heard: " Then on the pitchy dark...