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Subject: BROWNING, ROBERT (1812-1889)
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First Line: Let us begin and portion out these sweets
Last Line: Gen us undying?
Subject(s): "browning, Robert (1812-1889);funerals;poetry & Poets;" Burials


A NICE CORRESPONDENT, by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The glow and the glory are plighted
Last Line: Was written to you.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Locker, Frederick
Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Poetry & Poets


A NOCTURNE AT DANIELI'S, by OWEN SEAMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Caro mio, pulcinello, kindly hear my wail of woe
Last Line: There's the sea! And — ecco l'alba! Ha! (in other words) the dawn!
Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Poetry & Poets


A SEQUENCE OF SONNETS ON THE DEATH OF ROBERT BROWNING: 1, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The clearest eyes in all the world they read
Last Line: Nor england's memory clasp not browning's name.
Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Poetry & Poets


A SEQUENCE OF SONNETS ON THE DEATH OF ROBERT BROWNING: 2, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Death, what hast thou to do with one for whom
Last Line: What part hast thou then in his glory, death?
Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Poetry & Poets


A SEQUENCE OF SONNETS ON THE DEATH OF ROBERT BROWNING: 3, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A graceless doom it seems that bids us grieve
Last Line: What gift, what gift is this thou hast given us back?
Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Poetry & Poets


A SEQUENCE OF SONNETS ON THE DEATH OF ROBERT BROWNING: 4, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But he -- to him, who knows what gift is thine
Last Line: The sun, may match the sovereign eagle's eye.
Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Poetry & Poets


A SEQUENCE OF SONNETS ON THE DEATH OF ROBERT BROWNING: 5, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Among the wondrous ways of men and time
Last Line: With sense invasive as the dawn of doom.
Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Poetry & Poets


A SEQUENCE OF SONNETS ON THE DEATH OF ROBERT BROWNING: 6, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What secret thing of splendor or of shade
Last Line: The living sound of all men's souls alive?
Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Poetry & Poets


A SEQUENCE OF SONNETS ON THE DEATH OF ROBERT BROWNING: 7, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He held no dream worth waking: so he said
Last Line: And life and death but shadows of the soul.
Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Poetry & Poets


ABROAD THOUGHTS, by EDWARD BLISHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh, not to be in england %now that april's there!
Last Line: You were in the latter %five hundred miles from dover!
Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Poetry And Poets


ADOREE (ON READING BROWNING'S 'LAST RIDE TOGETHER'), by VIRGINIA WAINRIGHT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Onward we go to our destination
Last Line: You with a smile, I with a tear?
Subject(s): Aging; Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Poetry & Poets; Regret


AN OLD SONG BY NEW SINGERS: 'MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB': 2. BROWNING, by A. C. WILKIE    Poem Text                    
First Line: You knew her? -- mary the small
Last Line: That lamb was sure to soon be caught in.
Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Poetry & Poets


BROWNING, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Browning makes the verses: / your servant the critique
Last Line: Nor he with my review.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Criticism & Critics; Poetry & Poets


BROWNING AT ASOLO, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the loggia browning loved
Last Line: But the love of the warm heart lingers here.
Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Poetry & Poets


BROWNING TOCCATA, by D. A. PRINCE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Robert browning, weighty poet, this is very strange to find
Last Line: But expect your adulation to go on, and on, and on?
Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights


BROWNING'S FUNERAL, by H. T. MACKENZIE BELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now 'past they glide' and bear the flower-wreathed bier
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Mackenzie
Subject(s): Funerals; Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Burials


DOCTOR B. (ON RE-READING A COLLECTION OF POEMS), by ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Confound your croakers and drug concoctors
Last Line: Of dear old chirpy doctor b.!
Alternate Author Name(s): Maitland, Thomas
Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Poetry And Poets


FROM A SPANISH CLOISTER, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Grrr - what's that? A dog? A poet?
Last Line: Ave, virgo! Gr-r-r — you swine!
Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K.
Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Poetry & Poets


HOME TRUTHS FROM ABROAD, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "oh, to be in england / now that april's there"
Last Line: "and english spring sets men and women frowning, / despite the rhapsodies of robert browning"
Subject(s): "browning, Robert (1812-1889);poetry & Poets;


HOW I BROUGHT THE GOOD NEWS FROM AIX TO GHENT, OR VICE VERSA, by WALTER CARRUTHERS SELLAR    Poem Text                    
First Line: I sprang to the rollocks and jorrocks and me
Last Line: And eventually sent a telegram.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sellar, W. C.
Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Poetry & Poets


IN A COPY OF BROWNING, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Browning, old fellow
Last Line: My master still.
Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Poetry & Poets


INVISIBLE SIGHTS, by ALFRED DOMETT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So far away so long - and now
Last Line: That six inch brain-cube! - trash!
Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Carlyle, Thomas (1795-1881); Poetry And Poets


MY LAST DUCHESS RESPONDS TO ROBERT BROWNING, by JOANNE SELTZER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Night after night he didn't satisfy
Last Line: To paint my soul, to introduce foreplay
Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights


NIKOLAUS MARDRUZ TO HIS MASTER FERDINAND, COUNT OF TYROL, by RICHARD HOWARD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: My lord recalls ferrara? How walls
Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph
Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Ferrara, Italy; Poetry & Poets


NIKOLAUS MARDRUZ TO HIS MASTER FERDINAND, COUNT OF TYROL, by RICHARD HOWARD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My lord recalls ferrara? How walls
Last Line: To ferrara as to the world
Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph
Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Ferrara, Italy; Poetry And Poets


ON HEARING THE NEWS FROM VENICE, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now dumb is he who waked the world to speak
Last Line: When song is murk from springs of turbid source.
Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Death; Epitaphs; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The


PARODIST'S APOLOGY, by JAMES KENNETH STEPHEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If I've dared to laugh at you, robert browning
Last Line: You have spoken your message and earned your rest
Alternate Author Name(s): Stephen, J. K.
Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Poetry And Poets


PORPHYRIA'S REPLY, by MARY HOLTBY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bobby, my love, you guessed not how
Last Line: You too lie strangled in my hair
Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights


R. B., by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: His soul went singing like a mountaineer
Last Line: Was never stirred by man's vicissitudes.
Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Poetry & Poets


ROBERT BROWNING, by HENRY MEADE BLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sge of concord pondered long and deep
Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889)


ROBERT BROWNING, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is delight in singing, though none hear
Last Line: The siren waits thee, singing song for song.
Variant Title(s): To Robert Browning
Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers


ROBERT BROWNING, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The century was young -- the month was may
Last Line: Who shared heaven's secrets whilst thou walked on earth?
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Poetry & Poets


ROBERT BROWNING, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How blind the toil that burrows like the mole
Last Line: The tragic mask of wise euripides.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Euripides (484-406 B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Shelley, William (1816-1819)


ROBERT BROWNING (DIED AT THE PALAZZO REZZONICO, VENICE), by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So, it is well: what need is there to mourn?
Last Line: Uplift his soul to immortality.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Death; Dreams; Life; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Nightmares


SINCERE FLATTERY OF R.B., by JAMES KENNETH STEPHEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Birthdays? Yes, in a general way
Last Line: A bridge to stop asses at, once for all.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stephen, J. K.
Variant Title(s): Imitation Of Robert Browning
Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Poetry & Poets


SOME SONGS AFTER MASTER-SINGERS: 5. SUBTLETY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whilst little paul, convalescing, was staying
Last Line: Athletic,' but I mean to take, before %that, %downstairic and outdooric exercises
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Poetry And Poets


THE BURIAL OF ROBERT BROWNING, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon st. Michael's isle
Last Line: Or trafalgar.
Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper)
Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Funerals; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Burials


THE COCK AND THE BULL, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You see this pebble-stone? It's a thing I bought
Last Line: Extend from here to mesopotamy.
Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Poetry & Poets


THE LAST RIDE TOGETHER (FROM HER POINT OF VIEW), by JAMES KENNETH STEPHEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I had firmly answered 'no'
Last Line: "ride, ride together, forever ride."
Alternate Author Name(s): Stephen, J. K.
Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Poetry & Poets


THE POETS AT TEA: 5. BROWNING, WHO TREAT IT ALLEGORICALLY, by BARRY PAIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tut! Bah! We take as another case
Last Line: The sugar was salt, would the bohea be congo?
Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Food & Eating; Poetry & Poets; Tea


THE TWO BOBBIES, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bobbie burns and bobbie browning
Last Line: Bobbie is the boy for me!
Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets


THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: KING SOLOMON, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: King solomon stood, in his crown of gold
Last Line: And they picked from the dust a golden crown.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Netherlands; Poetry & Poets; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips


THREE ENGLISH POETS (WORDSWORTH, SHELLEY, BROWNING), by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I read three poems in one changeful night
Last Line: "the power and love are one: fight on! Rejoice!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais
Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


TO BROWNING, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If yellow betokens infidelity
Last Line: Effrontery.
Variant Title(s): Injudicious Gardening
Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Gardens & Gardening; Poetry & Poets


TO BROWNING, THE MUSIC MASTER, by ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O I once was a lad
Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Poetry And Poets


TO ROBERT BROWNING, by WITTER BYNNER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To tell the truth about you, robert browning
Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel
Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Poetry And Poets


TO ROBERT BROWNING, by AGNES LEE    Poem Source                    
First Line: He who leaves a glimmer of his soul
Alternate Author Name(s): Freer, Otto, Mrs.
Variant Title(s): To A Poe
Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Poetry And Poets