Browning, Robert, 1812-1889; Poets, English -- 19th century -- Biography
Epilogue to Part I.--"O Lyric Voice," etc., from end of First Part of
"The Ring and the Book." Part II.--"Hervé Riel"; "Amphibian"; "Epilogue
to Fifine"; "Pisgah Sights"; "Natural Magic"; "Magical Nature";
"Bifurcation"; "Numpholeptos"; "Appearances"; "St. Martin's Summer"; "A
Forgiveness"; Epilogue to Pacchiarotto volume; Prologue to "La Saisiaz";
Prologue to "Two Poets of Croisic"; "Epilogue"; "Pheidippides";
"Halbert and Hob"; "Ivàn Ivànovitch"; "Echetlos"; "Muléykeh"; "Pan and
Luna"; "Touch him ne'er so lightly"; Prologue to "Jocoseria"; "Cristina
and Monaldeschi"; "Mary Wollstonecraft and Fuseli"; "Ixion"; "Never the
Time and the Place"; _Song_, "Round us the wild creatures ";
_Song_, "Wish no word unspoken "; _Song_, "You groped your way";
_Song_:, "Man I am"; _Song_, "Once I saw"; "Verse-making";
"Not with my Soul Love"; "Ask not one least word of praise"; "Why from
the world"; "The Round of Day" (Pts. 9, 10, 11, 12 of Gérard de Lairesse);
Prologue to "Asolando"; "Rosny"; "Now"; "Poetics"; "Summum Bonum";
"A Pearl"; "Speculative"; "Inapprehensiveness"; "The Lady and the Painter;"
"Beatrice Signorini"; "Imperante Augusto"; "Rephan"; "Reverie";
Epilogue to "Asolando" (in all, 122).
But having drawn up this imaginary anthology, possibly with faults of
commission and probably with worse errors of omission, I should like to
take the reader into my confidence concerning a certain volume,
originally compiled for my own pleasure, though not without thought of
one or two dear kinsmen of a scattered Brotherhood--a volume half the
size of the projected Transcripts, and rare as that star in the tip of
the moon's horn of which Coleridge speaks.
_Flower o' the Vine_, so it is called, has for double-motto these two
lines from the Epilogue to the Pacchiarotto volume--
"Man's thoughts and loves and hates!
Earth is my vineyard, these grew there--"
and these words, already quoted, from the Shelley Essay, "I prefer to
look for the highest attainment, not simply the high."
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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