The Poetical Works of Robert Browning

Browning, Robert (1812-1889)

VOL. I.

II.

PART I. PARACELSUS ASPIRES.

II.

PART II. PARACELSUS ATTAINS.

III.

PART III. PARACELSUS.

IV.

PART IV. PARACELSUS ASPIRES.

PART V. PARACELSUS ATTAINS.

II.

II.

II.

III.

II.

III.

IV.

II.

III.

II.

III.

II.

III.

IV.

KING VICTOR & KING CHARLES;

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FIRST YEAR, 1730.—KING VICTOR.

Part I.

II.

Part II.

SECOND YEAR, 1731.—KING CHARLES.

Part I.

II.

Part II.

THE RETURN OF THE DRUSES

II.

III.

IV.

II.

IV.

A BLOT IN THE 'SCUTCHEON;

II.

III.

II.

III.

II.

II.

III.

IV.

“TRANSCENDENTALISM: A POEM IN TWELVE BOOKS.”

HOW IT STRIKES A CONTEMPORARY.

ARTEMIS PROLOGIZES.

AN EPISTLE

JOHANNES AGRICOLA IN MEDITATION.

PICTOR IGNOTUS.

FRA LIPPO LIPPI.

ANDREA DEL SARTO.

THE BISHOP ORDERS HIS TOMB AT SAINT PRAXED'S CHURCH.

BISHOP BLOUGRAM'S APOLOGY.

CLEON.

RUDEL TO THE LADY OF TRIPOLI.

ONE WORD MORE

VOL. V.

DRAMATIC ROMANCES.

INCIDENT OF THE FRENCH CAMP.

THE PATRIOT.

MY LAST DUCHESS.

COUNT GISMOND.

THE BOY AND THE ANGEL.

THE ITALIAN IN ENGLAND

THE ENGLISHMAN IN ITALY.

II.

THE LAST RIDE TOGETHER.

THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN;

THE FLIGHT OF THE DUCHESS.

II.

III.

IV.

VI.

VII.

VIII.

IX.

XI.

XII.

XIII.

XIV.

XV.

XVI.

XVII.

A GRAMMARIAN'S FUNERAL,

THE HERETIC'S TRAGEDY.

II.

III.

IV.

VI.

VII.

VIII.

IX.

HOLY-CROSS DAY.

PROTUS.

THE STATUE AND THE BUST.

PORPHYRIA'S LOVER

“CHILDE ROLAND TO THE DARK TOWER CAME.”

CHRISTMAS-EVE AND EASTER-DAY.

CHRISTMAS EVE.

EASTER-DAY.

II.

III.

IV.

VI.

VII.

VIII.

IX.

XI.

XII.

XIII.

XIV.

XV.

XVI.

XVII.

XVIII.

XIX.

XX.

XXI.

XXII.

XXIII.

XXIV.

XXV.

XXVI.

XXVII.

XXVIII.

XXIX.

XXX.

XXXI.

XXXII.

XXXIII.

VI.

II.

III.

III. BOOT AND SADDLE.

THE LOST LEADER.

“HOW THEY BROUGHT THE GOOD NEWS FROM GHENT TO AIX.”

THROUGH THE METIDJA TO ABD-EL-KADR.

NATIONALITY IN DRINKS.

GARDEN FANCIES.

I. THE FLOWER'S NAME.

II.

II. SIBRANDUS SCHAFNABURGENSIS.

SOLILOQUY OF THE SPANISH CLOISTER.

EARTH'S IMMORTALITIES.

LOVE AMONG THE RUINS.

A LOVERS' QUARREL.

UP AT A VILLA—DOWN IN THE CITY.

A TOCCATA OF GALUPPI'S.

OLD PICTURES IN FLORENCE

“DE GUSTIBUS------”

HOME-THOUGHTS, FROM ABROAD.

HOME-THOUGHTS, FROM THE SEA.

SAUL.

MY STAR.

BY THE FIRE-SIDE.

ANY WIFE TO ANY HUSBAND.

TWO IN THE CAMPAGNA.

MISCONCEPTIONS.

A SERENADE AT THE VILLA.

MASTER HUGUES OF SAXE-GOTHA.

II.

III.

IV.

VII.

I.—JAMES LEE'S WIFE SPEAKS AT THE WINDOW.

II.

III.

IV.

VI.

VI.—READING A BOOK, UNDER THE CLIFF

VII.

VII.—AMONG THE ROCKS.

VIII.

VIII.—BESIDE THE DRAWING BOARD.

II.

III.

IX.

IX.—ON DECK.

GOLD HAIR:

THE WORST OF IT.

DIS ALITER VISUM; OR, LE BYRON DE NOS JOURS.

TOO LATE.

ABT VOGLER.

RABBI BEN EZRA.

A DEATH IN THE DESERT.

CALIBAN UPON SETEBOS; OR, NATURAL THEOLOGY IN THE ISLAND.

MR. SLUDGE, “THE MEDIUM.”

APPARENT FAILURE.

EPILOGUE.

VIII, IX, X.

VOL. VIII., IX., X.

THE RING AND THE BOOK.

I. THE RING AND THE BOOK.

II.

II. HALF-ROME.

III.

III. THE OTHER HALF-ROME.

IV.

IV. TERTIUM QUID.

V. COUNT GUIDO FRANCESCHINI.

VI.

VI. GIUSEPPE CAPONSACCHI.

VII.

VII. POMPILIA.

VIII.

VIII. DOMINUS HYACINTHUS DE ARCHANGELIS,

IX.

IX. JURIS DOCTOR JOHANNES-BAPTISTA BOTTINIUS,

X. THE POPE.

XI.

XI. GUIDO.

XII.

XII. THE BOOK AND THE RING.

XI.

VOL. XI.

BALAUSTION'S ADVENTURE;

PRINCE HOHENSTIEL-SCHWANGAU,

XII.

RED COTTON NIGHT-CAP COUNTRY,

II.

III.

IV.

THE INN ALBUM.

II.

III.

IV.

VI.

VII.

VIII.

XIII.

VOL. XIII.

ARISTOPHANES' APOLOGY;

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HERAKLES.

THE AGAMEMNON OF ÆSCHYLUS.

XIV.

VOL. XIV.

PACCHIAROTTO AND HOW HE WORKED IN DISTEMPER ET CETERA

PROLOGUE.

OF PACCHIAROTTO, AND HOW HE WORKED IN DISTEMPER.

II.

FILIPPO BALDINUCCI ON THE PRIVILEGE OF BURIAL.

EPILOGUE.

LA SAISIAZ.

THE TWO POETS OF CROISIC.

XV.

[“You are sick, that's sure”—they say]

[“Touch him ne'er so lightly, into song he broke]

CRISTINA AND MONALDESCHI.

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT AND FUSELI.

ADAM, LILITH, AND EVE.

IXION.

JOCHANAN HAKKADOSH.

NEVER THE TIME AND THE PLACE.

XVI.

A PILLAR AT SEBZEVAR.

A BEAN-STRIPE: ALSO, APPLE-EATING.

EPILOGUE.

PARLEYINGS WITH CERTAIN PEOPLE

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APOLLO AND THE FATES.

WITH BERNARD DE MANDEVILLE.

II.

III.

IV.

VI.

VII.

VIII.

IX.

XI.

WITH DANIEL BARTOLI.

II.

III.

IV.

VI.

VII.

VIII.

IX.

XI.

XII.

XIII.

XIV.

XV.

XVI.

XVII.

XVIII.

WITH CHRISTOPHER SMART.

WITH GEORGE BUBB DODINGTON.

WITH FRANCIS FURINI.

II.

III.

IV.

VI.

VII.

VIII.

IX.

XI.

WITH GERARD DE LAIRESSE.

II.

III.

IV.

VI.

VII.

VIII.

IX.

XI.

XII.

XIII.

XIV.

XV.

XVI.

WITH CHARLES AVISON.

II.

III.

IV.

VI.

VII.

VIII.

IX.

XI.

XII.

XIII.

XIV.

XV.

XVI.

FUST AND HIS FRIENDS.

XVII.

II.

III.

IV.

THE CARDINAL AND THE DOG.

THE POPE AND THE NET.

THE BEAN-FEAST

MUCKLE-MOUTH MEG.

ARCADES AMBO.

THE LADY AND THE PAINTER.

PONTE DELL' ANGELO, VENICE

BEATRICE SIGNORINI.

FLUTE-MUSIC, WITH AN ACCOMPANIMENT.

“IMPERANTE AUGUSTO NATUS EST—”

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THE BOY AND THE ANGEL.

Morning, evening, noon and night,
“Praise God!” sang Theocrite.

Then to his poor trade he turned,
Whereby the daily meal was earned.

Hard he laboured, long and well;
O'er his work the boy's curls fell.

But ever, at each period,
He stopped and sang, “Praise God!”

Then back again his curls he threw,
And cheerful turned to work anew.

Said Blaise, the listening monk, “Well done;
“I doubt not thou art heard, my son:

“As well as if thy voice to-day
“Were praising God, the Pope's great way.

“This Easter Day, the Pope at Rome
“Praises God from Peter's dome.”

Said Theocrite, “Would God that I
“Might praise him, that great way, and die!”

Night passed, day shone,
And Theocrite was gone.

With God a day endures alway,
A thousand years are but a day.

God said in heaven, “Nor day nor night
“Now brings the voice of my delight.”

Then Gabriel, like a rainbow's birth,
Spread his wings and sank to earth;

Entered, in flesh, the empty cell,
Lived there, and played the craftsman well;

And morning, evening, noon and night,
Praised God in place of Theocrite.

And from a boy, to youth he grew:
The man put off the stripling's hue:

The man matured and fell away
Into the season of decay:

And ever o'er the trade he bent,
And ever lived on earth content.

(He did God's will; to him, all one
If on the earth or in the sun.)

God said, “A praise is in mine ear;
“There is no doubt in it, no fear:

“So sing old worlds, and so
“New worlds that from my footstool go.

“Clearer loves sound other ways:
“I miss my little human praise.”

Then forth sprang Gabriel's wings, off fell
The flesh disguise, remained the cell.

'T was Easter Day: he flew to Rome,
And paused above Saint Peter's dome.

In the tiring-room close by
The great outer gallery,

With his holy vestments dight,
Stood the new Pope, Theocrite

And all his past career
Came back upon him clear,

Since when, a boy, he plied his trade,
Till on his life the sickness weighed;

And in his cell, when death drew near,
An angel in a dream brought cheer:

And rising from the sickness drear
He grew a priest, and now stood here.

To the East with praise he turned,
And on his sight the angel burned.

“I bore thee from thy craftsman's cell
`And set thee here; I did not well.

“Vainly I left my angel-sphere,
“Vain was thy dream of many a year

“Thy voice's praise seemed weak; it dropped—
“Creation's chorus stopped!

“Go back and praise again
“The early way, while I remain.

“With that weak voice of our disdain,
“Take up creation's pausing strain.

“Back to the cell and poor employ:
“Resume the craftsman and the boy!”

Theocrite grew old at home;
A new Pope dwelt in Peter's dome.

One vanished as the other died:
They sought God side by side.

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