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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MEMORABILIA, by ROBERT BROWNING Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, did you once see shelley plain, / and did he stop and speak to you
Last Line: Well, I forget the rest.
Variant Title(s): Shelley;something To Remember
Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Writing & Writers
First Line: Ah, did you once see shelley plain, / and did he stop and speak to you
Last Line: Well, I forget the rest.
Variant Title(s): Shelley;something To Remember
Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Writing & Writers
AH, did you once see Shelley plain,
And did he stop and speak to you,
And did you speak to him again?
How strange it seems, and new!
But you were living before that,
And also you are living after;
And the memory I started at --
My starting moves your laughter!
I crossed a moor, with a name of its own
And a certain use in the world, no doubt,
Yet a hand's-breadth of it shines alone
'Mid the blank miles round about:
For there I picked up on the heather
And there I put inside my breast
A moulted feather, an eagle-feather!
Well, I forget the rest.
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