Home-thoughts, From Abroad : Robert Browning : : Bird Poems : :

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 : :”

Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came : Robert Browning : : Darkness Poems : :

“Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came” : : By Robert Browning ( 1812 – 1889 ) : : : : Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908 ) A Victorian Anthology , ( 1837 – 1895 ) , 1895 : : : : : : : : : : : : MY first thought was, heContinue reading “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came : Robert Browning : : Darkness Poems : :”

Confessions : Robert Browning : : June Poems : : Months Poems : :

Confessions : : By ROBERT BROWNING : : : : What is he buzzing in my ears?“Now that I come to die,Do I view the world as a vale of tears?”Ah, reverend sir, not I! What I viewed there once, what I view againWhere the physic bottles standOn the table’s edge,—is a suburb lane,With aContinue reading “Confessions : Robert Browning : : June Poems : : Months Poems : :”

Unlike Are We, Unlike O Princely Heart ! : Elizabeth Barrett Browning : : Death Poems : :

Sonnet 3: “Unlike are we, unlike, O princely Heart!” : Elizabeth Barrett Browning : : ( ) Unlike are we, unlike, O princely Heart!Unlike our uses and our destinies.Our ministering two angels look surpriseOn one another, as they strike athwart Their wings in passing (4) Thou, bethink thee, art 5A guest for queens to socialContinue reading “Unlike Are We, Unlike O Princely Heart ! : Elizabeth Barrett Browning : : Death Poems : :”

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