...1870, when the German army was about Paris, has the ring of the iron reality as Europe knows it today: We look for her that sunlike stood Upon the forehead...hands, the front of steel, The clarion tongue? Where the bold, proud face? We see a vacant place; We hear an iron heel. These are the opening words of the...

...that Dick came to see France as a person, trie ' wanton ' in her submerged, the ' angel ' apparent : ' The shape of glad array, The nervous hands, the front of steel, The clarion tongue, the proud, bold face.' Was the poet thinking of Jeanne D'Arc, he wondered ? She had been sweet and...

...effect, and offer a consistent chain of confirmatory motives and incidents. WM ROSSETTI. FRANCE, 1870. i. WE look for her that sunlike stood Upon the forehead...face ? We see a vacant place ; We hear an iron heel. ii. O she that made the brave appeal For manhood when our time was dark, And from our fetters struck...

...effect, and offer a consistent chain of confirmatory motives and incidents. WM ROSSETTI, FRANCE, 1870. I. WE look for her that sunlike stood Upon the forehead...of our day, An orb of nations, radiating food For hody and for mind alway. Where is the Shape of glad array ; The nervous hands, the front of steel,...

...brow. Cripple, fool, and petrifaction, Fall to him — are falling now ! XIX. FRANCE, DECEMBER 1870 WE look for her that sunlike stood Upon the forehead...face ? We see a vacant place ; We hear an iron heel. ii. O she that made the brave appeal For manhood when our time was dark, And from our fetters drove...

...broken, somewhat excessive in length — in which the poet laments the ruin wrought on THE BOOKNIARX. 85 Her that sunlike stood Upon the forehead of our day,...nations, radiating food For body and for mind alway. Here the issues are human and tragic; and, as is usual with Mr. Meredith when this is so, the antic...

...in the Fortnightly Review, and published in the volume " Ballads and Poems." FRANCE DECEMBER, 1870 WE look for her that sunlike stood Upon the forehead...face ? We see a vacant place ; We hear an iron heel. II O she that made the brave appeal For manhood when our time was dark, And from our fetters drove...

...in the Fortnighllv Review, and published in the volume " Ballads and Poems." FRANCE DECEMBER, 1870 WE look for her that sunlike stood Upon the forehead...orb of nations, radiating food For body and for mind alvvay. Where is the Shape of glad array ; The nervous hands, the front of steel, The clarion tongue...

...more was told Than of leaf on Danube rolled. Make the bed for Attila I FRANCE, DECEMBER 1870 W f E look for her that sunlike stood Upon the forehead...face ? We see a vacant place ; We hear an iron heel. II O she that made the brave appeal For manhood when our time was dark, And from our fetters drove...

...they read the news of that astonishing winter, when France disappeared from among the nations : — We look for her that sunlike stood Upon the forehead...face ? We see a vacant place ; We hear an iron heel. The reticence with which the Prussian is treated throughout the poem is terrible : We hear an iron...