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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 132 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=8mm, Gew.=204gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of t… More...

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 132 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=8mm, Gew.=204gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Blend with the powerful benignant shoulders Of ancient statues, and the generous arms Fitted for work of days or for the shelter Of man's exhausted sleep. And from her throat Slowly sloped the forward-swelling arc In a proud dominance, smoothly, tranquilly, Until its even mastery changed and broke Into less perfect rondure,? and reluctant Trembled into new drooping curves of song. And the long lines in echoing course swept downward To meet the passionate strong springing contours Of the carved thighs, that might have frozen to marble Save for the quivering light that played across them. And over the quiet valleys of her body The living shadow slept as hurricanes sleep. He poised in dreaming madness . . . Then she turned Slowly, unconsciously ? till her sudden eyes Flashed into knowledge ? and a wild terror Flickered like lightning on her face: she cowered And clutched her arms to her body, dumb and pant- ing.? Shrank,? faced him,? turned,? and shrank,? and faced him again. And he, poising upon that perilous edge, Drunk with the dream of an immortal beauty And a brief splendor of deathless joy, cried out ? " I too have heard the wind-call; I too am here, Beautiful lover! We on the heights of the world Meet, that the earth may blossom! this is the hour! " And the bewildered fear grew in her face From which the timeless womanhood had fallen Leaving her but a girl,? young, desperate, lost In lonely agony. The triumphant head Seemed drooping down now to the shaken breast ? The tremulous body paled; the light went out That had filled her eyes. And he cried ?" Beauti- ful one! Laugh! It has come." She sank to the brown rock And with a last look of deserted terror And dim uncomprehending shame and cold And weakness, hid her...<

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[ED: Softcover], [PU: Cambridge Scholars Publishing], Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Blend with the powerful benignant shoulders Of ancient statues, and the generous arms Fitted for work of days or for the shelter Of man's exhausted sleep. And from her throat Slowly sloped the forward-swelling arc In a proud dominance, smoothly, tranquilly, Until its even mastery changed and broke Into less perfect rondure,? and reluctant Trembled into new drooping curves of song. And the long lines in echoing course swept downward To meet the passionate strong springing contours Of the carved thighs, that might have frozen to marble Save for the quivering light that played across them. And over the quiet valleys of her body The living shadow slept as hurricanes sleep. He poised in dreaming madness . . . Then she turned Slowly, unconsciously ? till her sudden eyes Flashed into knowledge ? and a wild terror Flickered like lightning on her face: she cowered And clutched her arms to her body, dumb and pant- ing.? Shrank,? faced him,? turned,? and shrank,? and faced him again. And he, poising upon that perilous edge, Drunk with the dream of an immortal beauty And a brief splendor of deathless joy, cried out ? " I too have heard the wind-call I too am here, Beautiful lover! We on the heights of the world Meet, that the earth may blossom! this is the hour! " And the bewildered fear grew in her face From which the timeless womanhood had fallen Leaving her but a girl,? young, desperate, lost In lonely agony. The triumphant head Seemed drooping down now to the shaken breast ? The tremulous body paled the light went out That had filled her eyes. And he cried ?" Beauti- ful one! Laugh! It has come." She sank to the brown rock And with a last look of deserted terror And dim uncomprehending shame and cold And weakness, hid her...Versandfertig in 6-10 Tagen, [SC: 0.00]<

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