Home-Thoughts, from Abroad : : By Robert Browning Oh, to be in EnglandNow that April’s there,And whoever wakes in EnglandSees, some morning, unaware,That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheafRound the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf,While the chaffinch sings on the orchard boughIn England—now! And after April, when May follows,And the whitethroat builds, andContinue reading “Home-thoughts, From Abroad : Robert Browning : : Bird Poems : :”
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Mother and Poet : ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING : : Death Poems : :
Mother and PoetBY ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNINGI.Dead ! One of them shot by the sea in the east,And one of them shot in the west by the sea.Dead ! both my boys ! When you sit at the feastAnd are wanting a great song for Italy free,Let none look at me ! II.Yet I was aContinue reading “Mother and Poet : ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING : : Death Poems : :”