CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION THE LIFE OF BROWNING
BIBLIOGRAPHY
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
SONGS FROM PARACELSUS I "HEAP CASSIA, SANDAL-BUDS, AND STRIPES"
CAVALIER TUNES I MARCHING ALONG Kentish Sir Byng stood for his
THE LOST LEADER
"HOW THEY BROUGHT THE GOOD NEWS FROM GHENT TO AIX"
GARDEN FANCIES THE FLOWER'S NAME Here's the garden she walked
MEETING AT NIGHT
PARTING AT MORNING
EVELYN HOPE
LOVE AMONG THE RUINS
UP AT A VILLA DOWN IN THE CITY (AS DISTINGUISHED BY AN ITALIAN
A TOCCATA OF GALUPPI'S
OLD PICTURES IN FLORENCE
"DE GUSTIBUS "
HOME-THOUGHTS, FROM ABROAD
HOME-THOUGHTS, FROM THE SEA
SAUL I Said Abner, "At last thou art come! Ere I tell, ere thou
MY STAR
TWO IN THE CAMPAGNA
IN THREE DAYS
THE GUARDIAN-ANGEL A PICTURE AT FANO Dear and great Angel,
MEMORABILIA
INCIDENT OF THE FRENCH CAMP
MY LAST DUCHESS FERRARA That's my last Duchess painted on the
THE BOY AND THE ANGEL
THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN; A CHILD'S STORY I Hamelin Town's in
THE FLIGHT OF THE DUCHESS I You're my friend: I was the man the
A GRAMMARIAN'S FUNERAL SHORTLY AFTER THE REVIVAL OF LEARNING IN
"CHILDE ROLAND TO THE DARK TOWER CAME" (See Edgar's song in
HOW IT STRIKES A CONTEMPORARY
FRA LIPPO LIPPI
ANDREA DEL SARTO Called "The Faultless Painter" But do not let
THE BISHOP ORDERS HIS TOMB AT SAINT PRAXED'S CHURCH Rome , 15
CLEON "As certain also of your own poets have said" Cleon the
ONE WORD MORE I
ABT VOGLER (AFTER HE HAS BEEN EXTEMPORIZING UPON THE MUSICAL
RABBI BEN EZRA
CALIBAN UPON SETEBOS; OR NATURAL THEOLOGY IN THE ISLAND "Thou
MAY AND DEATH
PROSPICE
A FACE
O LYRIC LOVE
PROLOGUE TO PACCHIAROTTO
HOUSE
SHOP
HERVE RIEL I On the sea and at the Hogue, sixteen hundred
"GOOD, TO FORGIVE"
"SUCH A STARVED BANK OF MOSS"
EPILOGUE TO THE TWO POETS OF CROISIC
PHEIDIPPIDES ???????, ???????. First I salute this soil of the
MULEYKEH
WANTING IS WHAT?
NEVER THE TIME AND THE PLACE
THE PATRIOT
INSTANS TYRANNUS I Of the million or two, more or less, I rule
THE ITALIAN IN ENGLAND
"ROUND US THE WILD CREATURES"
PROLOGUE TO ASOLANDO
SUMMUM BONUM
EPILOGUE TO ASOLANDO
PIPPA PASSES A DRAMA
NOTES SONGS FROM PARACELSUS
Title: Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning
Author: Robert Browning
Editor: Myra Reynolds
Language: English
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ROBERT BROWNING ROBERT BROWNING
The Lake Library Edition
SELECTIONS
FROM
The Poems and Plays
OF
Robert Browning
EDITED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION
BY
MYRA REYNOLDS
PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
SCOTT, FORESMAN AND COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1909
SCOTT, FORESMAN AND COMPANY
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