 Why did you melt your waxen man, Sister Helen? To-day is the third since you began.' 'The time was long, yet the time ran, Little brother.' (O Mother, Mary Mother, Three days to-day, between Hell and Heaven!) 'But if you have done your work aright, Sister...  Poems - Сторінка 8автори: Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1881 - 294 стор.Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | 1908 - 678 стор.
...list of writings on this subject. A powerful narrative follows the well-managed introduction : — " Why did you melt your waxen man, Sister Helen ? To-day...is the third since you began," " The time was long, but the time ran, Little brother." О Mother, Mary Mother, Three days to-day, between Hell and Heaven... | |
 | Robert Williams Buchanan - 1872 - 116 стор.
...persons are very fond for its own sake, quite apart from its relevancy. Thus Mr. Rossetti sings : — " Why did you melt your waxen man, Sister Helen ? To-day...(O mother, Mary mother, Three days to-day between Heaven and Hell.)" This burden is repeated, with little or no alteration, through thirty-four verses.... | |
 | Living voices - 1873 - 588 стор.
...? — When hearts are pure, and bold, and strong, True love as life itself is long. Miss MULOCH. , SISTER HELEN. " WHY did you melt your waxen man, Sister Helen ? To-day is the third day since you began ! " '• The time was long, yet the time ran, Little brother." ( 0 Mother, Mary... | |
 | 1876 - 564 стор.
...work on the ingots, the bales, Save a child sitting lonely who misses the bird ! ROBERT BULWER LYTTON. Sister Helen. WHY did you melt your waxen man, Sister...But if you have done your work aright, Sister Helen, You will let me play, for you said I might." " Be very still in your play to-night, Little brother."... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 стор.
...by the clap of the thunder. KOBEHT SISTER BELÉN. " WHY did you melt your waxen man, Sister Helen 1 To-d 4 Man- Mother, Three days to-day, between hell and heaven !) " But if you have done your work aright,... | |
 | 1882 - 816 стор.
...in ' Macbeth ' could make her victim ' peak and pine ' will understand the allusion in this : — ' Why did you melt your waxen man, Sister Helen ? To-day...time was long, yet the time ran, Little brother.' (0 Mother, Mary Mother, Three days to-day, between HeU and Heaven!') It is a story of revenge, unsurpassed... | |
 | 1889 - 366 стор.
...found is in his weird " Sister Helen," which has been frequently parodied. It commences thus : — "WHY did you melt your waxen man, Sister Helen? To-day...you began." " The time was long, yet the time ran. " But if you have done your work aright, Sister Helo.n, You'll let me play, for you said I might."... | |
 | Hezekiah Butterworth - 1886 - 120 стор.
...**.J__,J_ *f J w 9 O Mother, Mary Mother, Three days to-day between hell and heaven, n Piano or Organ. " Why did you melt your waxen man, Sister Helen ? To-day...The time was long yet the time ran, Little brother." " But if you have done your work aright, Sister Helen, You'll let me play, for you said I might," "... | |
 | 1887 - 642 стор.
...pedantically, called "the renascence of wonder." From the first verse, which was not in the original — " Why did you melt your waxen man, Sister Helen ? To-day...(O Mother, Mary Mother, Three days to-day between Ifcll and Heaven !) — the notes of scorn and sorrow, lamentation and loathing, vary and alternate... | |
 | Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1887 - 582 стор.
...when side by side We've knelt to pray with them that died, My prayer was, ' Show her what I hide ! ' " SISTER HELEN. "WHY did you melt your waxen man, Sister...time ran, Little brother." (O Mother, Mary Mother, T'iree days to-day, bctiacen Hell and Heaven .') " But if you have done your work aright, Sister Helen,... | |
| |
