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Robert Browning
Robert Browning

Parting At Morning

Parting At Morning
Round the cape of a sudden came the sea,
And the sun looked over the mountain's rim:
And straight was a path of gold for him,

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Robert Browning
Robert Browning

Pied Piper Of Hamelin, The

Pied Piper Of Hamelin, The
A CHILD'S STORY.
(_Written for, and inscribed to, W. M. the Younger._)
I.
Hamelin Town's in Brunswick,
By famo…

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Robert Browning
Robert Browning

One Way Of Love

One Way Of Love
.
All June I bound the rose in sheaves.
Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves
And strew them where Pauline may pass.
She w…

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Robert Browning
Robert Browning

Overhead the Tree-Tops Meet

Overhead the Tree-Tops Meet
Overhead the tree-tops meet,
Flowers and grass spring 'neath one's feet;
There was nought above me, and nought below,

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Robert Browning
Robert Browning

Now!

Now!
Out of your whole life give but a moment!
All of your life that has gone before,
All to come after it, -- so you ignore,
So you make perfect…

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Robert Browning
Robert Browning

Nationality In Drinks

Nationality In Drinks
I.
My heart sank with our Claret-flask,
Just now, beneath the heavy sedges
That serve this Pond's black face for mask

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Robert Browning
Robert Browning

My Last Duchess

My Last Duchess
FERRARA.
That's my last Duchess painted on the wall,
Looking as if she were alive. I call
That piece a wonder, now: Fr Pandolf's …

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Robert Browning
Robert Browning

Mesmerism

Mesmerism
I.
All I believed is true!
I am able yet
All I want, to get
By a method as strange as new:
Dare I trust the same to you…

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Robert Browning
Robert Browning

Meeting At Night

Meeting At Night
I.
The grey sea and the long black land;
And the yellow half-moon large and low;
And the startled little waves that leap

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Robert Browning
Robert Browning

Man I Am and Man Would Be, Love

Man I Am and Man Would Be, Love
Man I am and man would be, Love--merest man and nothing more.
Bid me seem no other! Eagles boast of pinions--let them soar!

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Robert Browning
Robert Browning

Love Among The Ruins

Love Among The Ruins
I.
Where the quiet-coloured end of evening smiles,
Miles and miles
On the solitary pastures where our sheep
Half-asl…

539
Robert Browning
Robert Browning

Lost Leader, The

Lost Leader, The
I.
Just for a handful of silver he left us,
Just for a riband to stick in his coat---
Found the one gift of which fortune bereft…

337
Robert Browning
Robert Browning

Laboratory, The

Laboratory, The
ANCIEN R GIME.
I.
Now that I, tying thy glass mask tightly,
May gaze thro' these faint smokes curling whitely,
As thou pl…

345
Robert Browning
Robert Browning

Life in a Bottle

Life in a Bottle
Escape me?
Never--
Beloved!
While I am I, and you are you,
So long as the world contains us both,
Me the loving …

308
Robert Browning
Robert Browning

In Three Days

In Three Days
I.
So, I shall see her in three days
And just one night, but nights are short,
Then two long hours, and that is morn.
See h…

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Robert Browning
Robert Browning

Instans Tyrannus

Instans Tyrannus
I.
Of the million or two, more or less,
I rule and possess,
One man, for some cause undefined,
Was least to my mind.

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Robert Browning
Robert Browning

Home-Thoughts, From The Sea

Home-Thoughts, From The Sea
Nobly, nobly Cape Saint Vincent to the North-west died away;
Sunset ran, one glorious blood-red, reeking into Cadiz Bay;
Blui…

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Robert Browning
Robert Browning

In A Gondola

In A Gondola
He sings_.
I send my heart up to thee, all my heart
In this my singing.
For the stars help me, and the sea bears part;
The v…

417
Robert Browning
Robert Browning

Holy-Cross Day

Holy-Cross Day
ON WHICH THE JEWS WERE FORCED TO
ATTEND AN ANNUAL CHRISTIAN SERMON
IN ROME.
[``Now was come about Holy-Cross Day,
and now …

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Robert Browning
Robert Browning

Home Thoughts, from the Sea

Home Thoughts, from the Sea
Nobly, nobly Cape Saint Vincent to the North-west died away;
Sunset ran, one glorious blood-red, reeking into Cadiz Bay;
Blui…

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Robert Browning
Robert Browning

Glove, The

Glove, The
(PETER RONSARD _loquitur_.)
``Heigho!'' yawned one day King Francis,
``Distance all value enhances!
``When a man's busy, why, leisure …

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Robert Browning
Robert Browning

Heap Cassia, Sandal-Buds and Stripes

Heap Cassia, Sandal-Buds and Stripes
Heap Cassia, sandal-buds and stripes
Of labdanum, and aloe-balls,
Smeared with dull nard an Indian wipes
Fro…

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Robert Browning
Robert Browning

From 'Pauline'

From 'Pauline'
O God, where does this tend—these struggling aims?
What would I have? What is this ‘sleep’, which seems
To bound all? can there be a ‘waki…

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Robert Browning
Robert Browning

Fra Lippo Lippi

Fra Lippo Lippi
I am poor brother Lippo, by your leave!
You need not clap your torches to my face.
Zooks, what's to blame? you think you see a monk!

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