Category: Poetry

Pomegranates from an English Garden A selection from the poems of Robert Browning

The required books of the C. L. S. C. are recommended by a Council of six. It must, however, be understood that recommendation does not involve an approval by the Council, or by any member of it, of every principle or doctrine contained in the book recommended.

Chapters

1. Part 1

The required books of the C. L. S. C. are recommended by a Council of six. It must, however, be understood that recommendation does not involve an approval by the Council, or by...

2. Part 2

And all I remember is, friends flocking round As I sat with his head ’twixt my knees on the ground; And no voice but was praising this Roland of mine, As I poured down his throa...

3. Part 3

The contrasts are very powerful between the one (paltry) gift he gained, and all the others (love, loyalty, life, &c.) they were privileged to _devote_ (far richer than mere pos...

4. Part 4

In connection with “Popularity” should be studied “The Two Poets of Croisic,” far too long to be inserted here. An interesting comparison, also, may be made with a little poem o...

5. Part 5

Not but that you know me! Lo, the moon’s self! Here in London, yonder late in Florence, Still we find her face, the thrice-transfigured. Curving on a sky imbrued with colour, Dr...

6. Part 6

’Tis but a case of mania: subinduced By epilepsy, at the turning-point Of trance prolonged unduly some three days When, by the exhibition of some drug Or spell, exorcisation, st...

7. Part 7

So, gazing up, in my youth, at love As seen through power, ever above All modes which make it manifest, My soul brought all to a single test— That he, the Eternal First and Last...

8. Part 8

Do you say this, or I?—Oh, you! Then, what, my friend?—(thus I pursue Our parley)—you indeed opine That the Eternal and Divine Did, eighteen centuries ago, In very truth.... Eno...