Publisher's Synopsis
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. 1853 edition. Excerpt: ...potion works. He drinks. It should be strong: The asp's red venom to this draught of mine Were but a mother's kiss; ay, it goes well! The life is leaving now!--it leaves my hands, And now my arms: how slow, slow, very slow The lazy heart beats!--bravely--gentle juice--My lids are sinking--it is dark.--I die. I will die standing--how the body strives To hold the soul, and how the soul doth grow Strong--stronger--strongest--ah! Leonore! Leonore! Let me speak, Leonore, before I come!--It is not as I thought, Vet It Is Well. Eureka--oh! Eureka!--WITH A BRACELET IN THE FORM OF A SNAKE. HEY tell of Arab maidens, who with singing low and sweet Can tame the green and crested snake to cower at their feet, And coil about them playfully in many a subtle fold, Weaving them living bracelets, and chains of changing gold. And they that Allah honours thus, through many rolling years Can never taste of misery, shall never know of tears; Unclouded loves and happy homes are theirs till life is past, And a throne of flashing jewels in a Houri's heaven at last. So may the serpent circle that I send thee ever be A talisman of endless good, dear Emily, to thee; In joy or sorrow, chance or change, one tale for ever telling, How in a true unchanging heart thy memory is dwelling. It will not lighten grief; but when the grief is hard to bear, 'Twill whisper low of one whose joy had been that grief to share: It may not bring thee happiness like theirs, but yet the while It may remind thee how I loved thy happy English smile. I send thee not the ornament to do thy beauty grace, Brighter that beauty could not be, nor fairer thy fair face; Thou art too beautiful for gems, it is but as a sign How thou hast tamed a tameless heart, how all my thoughts are thine. When they...