This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ... by side with this elegy, suggested by the death of a young girl, we place ' Love among the Ruins," a noble poem over a dead city. It is one that only Browning would have written, who felt as intensely about old houses, old castles, old cities, as he did about the human folk, living and dead, of his experience. The two ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ... by side with this elegy, suggested by the death of a young girl, we place ' Love among the Ruins," a noble poem over a dead city. It is one that only Browning would have written, who felt as intensely about old houses, old castles, old cities, as he did about the human folk, living and dead, of his experience. The two poems gain by being studied in sequence--the open and rather plaintive melody of "Evelyn Hope ' offers an interesting rhythmical contrast to the alternated stride, long and short, of "Love among the Ruins." LOVE AMONG THE RUINS I Where the quiet-coloured end of evening smiles Miles and miles On the solitary pastures where our sheep Half-asleep Tinkle homeward thro' the twilight, stray or stop As they crop--II Was the site once of a city great and gay, (So they say) Of our country's very capital, its prince Ages since Held his court in, gathered councils, wielding far Peace or war. IIl Now--the country does not even boast a tree, As you see, To distinguish slopes of verdure, certain rills From the hills Intersect and give a name to, (else they run Into one) IV Where the domed and daring palace shot its spires Up like fires O'er the hundred-gated circuit of a wall Bounding all, Made of marble, men might march on nor be prest, Twelve abreast. V And such plenty and perfection, see, of grass Never was! Such a carpet as, this summer-time, o'erspreads And embeds Every vestige of the city, guessed alone, Stock or stone--VI Where a multitude of men breathed joy and woe Long ago; Lust of glory pricked their hearts up, dread of shame Struck them tame; And that glory and that shame alike, the gold Bought and sold. VII Now, --the single little turret that remains On the plains, By the caper overrooted, by the gourd Overscored, While the...
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