The Statue and the Bust (Robert Browning Poem)
There's a palace in Florence, the world knows well, And a statue watches it from the square, And this story ...
There's a palace in Florence, the world knows well, And a statue watches it from the square, And this story ...
"As certain also of your own poets have said"-- (Acts 17.28) Cleon the poet (from the sprinkled isles, Lily on ...
I. She should never have looked at me If she meant I should not love her! There are plenty ... ...
Would that the structure brave, the manifold music I build, Bidding my organ obey, calling its keys to their work, ...
I've a Friend, over the sea; I like him, but he loves me. It all grew out of the books ...
I. Dear, had the world in its caprice Deigned to proclaim ``I know you both, ``Have recognized your plighted troth, ...
I. All I believed is true! I am able yet All I want, to get By a method as strange ...
At the midnight in the silence of the sleep-time, When you set your fancies free, Will they pass to where--by ...
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
Boot, saddle, to horse and away! Rescue my Castle, before the hot day Brightens to blue from its silvery gray, ...
I. It is a lie---their Priests, their Pope, Their Saints, their ... all they fear or hope Are lies, ...
Never any more, While I live, Need I hope to see his face As before. Once his love grown chill, ...
I. You know, we French stormed Ratisbon: A mile or so away, On a little mound, Napoleon Stood on our ...
I. My heart sank with our Claret-flask, Just now, beneath the heavy sedges That serve this Pond's black face for ...
I. THE FLOWER'S NAME Here's the garden she walked across, Arm in my arm, such a short while since: Hark, ...
I. The morn when first it thunders in March, The eel in the pond gives a leap, they say: As ...
1 It once might have been, once only: 2 We lodged in a street together, 3 You, a sparrow on ...
Oh, good gigantic smile o' the brown old earth, This autumn morning! How he sets his bones To bask i' ...
Man I am and man would be, Love--merest man and nothing more. Bid me seem no other! Eagles boast of ...
Never the time and the place And the loved one all together! This path--how soft to pace! This May -- ...
I. Let them fight it out, friend! things have gone too far. God must judge the couple: leave them as ...
I. Stand still, true poet that you are! I know you; let me try and draw you. Some night you'll ...
All the breath and the bloom of the year in the bag of one bee: All the wonder and wealth ...
(PETER RONSARD _loquitur_.) ``Heigho!'' yawned one day King Francis, ``Distance all value enhances! ``When a man's busy, why, leisure ``Strikes ...
O God, where does this tend-these struggling aims? What would I have? What is this 'sleep', which seems To bound ...
FAME. See, as the prettiest graves will do in time, Our poet's wants the freshness of its prime; Spite of ...
I. Beautiful Evelyn Hope is dead! Sit and watch by her side an hour. That is her book-shelf, this her ...
Morning, evening, noon and night, ``Praise God!; sang Theocrite. Then to his poor trade he turned, Whereby the daily meal ...
I. Said Abner, ``At last thou art come! Ere I tell, ere thou speak, ``Kiss my cheek, wish me well!'' ...
I TRUTH is within ourselves; it takes no rise From outward things, whate'er you may believe. There is an inmost ...
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