Chapter I: Act III

DRAMATIC ROMANCES By Robert Browning Introduction and Notes: Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke CONTENTS INTRODUCTION INCIDENT OF THE FRENCH CAMP THE PATRIOT MY LAST DUCHESS COUNT GISMOND THE BOY AND THE ANGEL INSTANS TYRANNUS MESMERISM THE GLOVE TIME'S REVENGES THE ENGLISHMAN IN ITALY IN A GONDOLA WARING THE TWINS A LIGHT WOMAN THE LAST RIDE TOGETHER THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN: THE FLIGHT OF THE DUCHESS A GRAMMARIAN'S FUNERAL, THE HERETIC'S TRAGEDY HOLY-CROSS DAY PROTUS THE STATUE AND THE BUST PORPHYRIA'S LOVER "CHILDE ROLAND TO THE DARK TOWER CAME."

BROWNING'S SHORTER POEMS Selected And Edited By Franklin T. Baker

CONTENTS Page LIFE OF BROWNING vii BROWNING AS POET x APPRECIATIONS xx CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF BROWNING'S WORKS xxiv BIBLIOGRAPHY

xxvii The Pied Piper of Hamelin 1 Tray 15 Incident of the French Camp 17 "How they brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix" 19 Hervé Riel 22 Pheidippides 30 My Star 40 Evelyn Hope 41 Love among the Ruins 43 Misconceptions 47 Natural Magic 48 Apparitions 49 A Wall 50 Confessions 51 A Woman's Last Word 53 A Pretty Woman 55 Youth and Art 58 A Tale 61 Cavalier Tunes 67 Home-Thoughts, from the Sea 70 Summum Bonum 71 A Face 72 Songs from Pippa Passes 73 The Lost Leader 75 Apparent Failure 77 Fears and Scruples 80 Instans Tyrannus 82 The Patriot 85 The Boy and the Angel 87 Memorabilia 91 Why I am a Liberal 92 Prospice 93 Epilogue to "Asolando" 94 "De Gustibus—" 96 The Italian in England 98 My Last Duchess 105 The Bishop Orders his Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church 107 The Laboratory 113 Home Thoughts, from Abroad 115 Up at a Villa—Down in the City 116 A Toccata of Galuppi's 122 Abt Vogler 126 Rabbi Ben Ezra 133 A Grammarian's Funeral 143 Andrea del Sarto 149 Caliban upon Setebos 161 "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came" 174 An Epistle 183 Saul 196 One Word More

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NOTES

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ILUSTRATION: Robert Browning 271

MEN AND WOMEN By Robert Browning

CONTENTS INTRODUCTION "TRANSCENDENTALISM: A POEM IN TWELVE BOOKS" HOW IT STRIKES A CONTEMPORARY ARTEMIS PROLOGIZES AN EPISTLE CONTAINING THE STRANGE MEDICAL EXPERIENCE OF KARSHISH, THE ARAB PHYSICIAN JOHANNES AGRICOLA IN MEDITATION PICTOR IGNOTUS FRA LIPPO LIPPI ANDREA DEL SARTO THE BISHOP ORDERS HIS TOMB AT SAINT PRAXED'S CHURCH BISHOP BLOUGRAM'S APOLOGY CLEON RUDEL TO THE LADY OF TRIPOLI ONE WORD MORE

SELECTIONS FROM THE POEMS AND PLAYS Edited By Myra Reynolds CONTENTS

Introduction— PAGE
I. The Life of Browning 7
II. The Poetry of Browning 31

Bibliography 57

Chronological Table 60

Selections from Browning—
(The figures in parentheses refer to the pages of the Notes.)
Songs from Paracelsus (389) 65
Cavalier Tunes (391) 69
The Lost Leader (391) 72
"How They Brought the Good News" (392) 73
The Flower's Name (393) 76
Meeting at Night (393) 78
Parting at Morning (393) 78
Evelyn Hope (393) 78
Love Among the Ruins (394) 81
Up at a Villa—Down in the City (394) 84
A Toccata of Galuppi's (395) 88
Old Pictures in Florence (396) 91
"De Gustibus—" (399) 101
Home-Thoughts, from Abroad (399) 103
Home-Thoughts, from the Sea (400) 104
Saul (400) 105
My Star (402) 126
Two in the Campagna (403) 126
In Three Days (403) 129
The Guardian-Angel (403) 130
Memorabilia (404) 132
Incident of the French Camp (404) 133
My Last Duchess (404) 135
The Boy and the Angel (404) 137
The Pied Piper of Hamelin (404) 141
The Flight of the Duchess (405) 152
A Grammarian's Funeral (406) 183
"Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" (407) 189
How It Strikes a Contemporary (409) 196
Fra Lippo Lippi (409) 200
Andrea Del Sarto (413) 213
The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church (414) 222
Cleon (416) 227
One Word More (417) 239
Abt Vogler (419) 247
Rabbi Ben Ezra (422) 253
Caliban Upon Setebos (423) 260
May and Death (425) 271
Prospice (425) 272
A Face (425) 273
O Lyric Love (425) 274
Prologue to Pacchiarotto (425) 275
House (426) 276
Shop (426) 278
Hervé Riel (426) 282
Good to Forgive (427) 289
"Such a Starved Bank of Moss" (427) 290
Epilogue to the Two Poets of Croisic (427) 290
Pheidippides (427) 295
Muléykeh (428) 302
Wanting Is—What? (428) 309
Never the Time and the Place (428) 310
The Patriot (429) 311
Instans Tyrannus (429) 312
The Italian in England (430) 315
"Round Us the Wild Creatures" (431) 321
Prologue to Asolando (431) 321
Summum Bonum (431) 323
Epilogue to Asolando (431) 324
Pippa Passes (431) 325

Notes 389

THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN AND OTHER POEMS By Robert Browning CONTENTS PAGE The Pied Piper of Hamelin 11 Hervé Riel 24 Cavalier Tunes 31 “How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix” 34 Through the Metidja to Abd-el-kadr 37 Incident of the French Camp 39 Clive 41 Muléykeh 59 Tray 68 A Tale 70 Gold Hair 75 Donald 82 The Glove 90 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE The Pied Piper of Hamelin Frontispiece “‘Leave to go and see my wife, whom I call the Belle Aurore’” 30 “I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three” 34 “A rider bound on bound full galloping, nor bridle drew until he reached the mound” 39 “Hair, such a wonder of flix and floss” 75 “And full in the face of its owner flung the glove” 95

THE COMPLETE POETIC AND DRAMATIC WORKS Of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition

TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH ix PAULINE: A FRAGMENT OF A CONFESSION 1 Sonnet: "Eyes, calm beside thee, (Lady, couldst thou know!)" 11 PARACELSUS. I. Paracelsus aspires 12 II. Paracelsus attains 19 III. Paracelsus 25 IV. Paracelsus aspires 34 V. Paracelsus attains 40 STRAFFORD: A TRAGEDY 49 SORDELLO 74 PIPPA PASSES: A DRAMA 128 KING VICTOR AND KING CHARLES: A TRAGEDY 145 DRAMATIC LYRICS. Cavalier Tunes. I. Marching Along 163 II. Give a Rouse 163 III. Boot and Saddle 163 The Lost Leader 164 "How they brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix" 164 Through the Metidja to Abd-el-Kadr 165 Nationality in Drinks 166 Garden Fancies. I. The Flower's Name 166 II. Sibrandus Schafnaburgensis 167 Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister 167 The Laboratory 168 The Confessional 169 Cristina 169 The Lost Mistress 170 Earth's Immortalities 170 Meeting at Night 170 Parting at Morning 170 Song: "Nay but you, who do not love her" 170 A Woman's Last Word 171 Evelyn Hope 171 Love among the Ruins 171 A Lovers' Quarrel 172 Up at a Villa—Down in the City 174 A Toccata of Galuppi's 175 Old Pictures in Florence 176 "De Gustibus—" 178 Home-Thoughts, from Abroad 179 Home-Thoughts, from the Sea 179 Saul 179 My Star 184 By the Fireside 185 Any Wife to Any Husband 187 Two in the Campagna 189 Misconceptions 189 A Serenade at the Villa 189 One Way of Love 190 Another Way of Love 190 A Pretty Woman 190 Respectability 191 Love in a Life 191 Life in a Love 191 In Three Days 192 In a Year 192 Women and Roses 193 Before 193 After 194 The Guardian-Angel 194 Memorabilia 195 Popularity 195 Master Hughes of Saxe-Gotha 195 THE RETURN OF THE DRUSES 197 A BLOT IN THE 'SCUTCHEON 216 COLOMBE'S BIRTHDAY 230 DRAMATIC ROMANCES. Incident of the French Camp 251 The Patriot 251 My Last Duchess 252 Count Gismond 252 The Boy and the Angel 253 Instans Tyrannus 254 Mesmerism 255 The Glove 256 Time's Revenges 258 The Italian in England 258 The Englishman in Italy 260[vi] In a Gondola 262 Waring 264 The Twins 266 A Light Woman 267 The Last Ride Together 267 The Pied Piper of Hamelin 268 The Flight of the Duchess 271 A Grammarian's Funeral 279 The Heretic's Tragedy 280 Holy-Cross Day 281 Protus 283 The Statue and the Bust 283 Porphyria's Lover 286 "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" 287 A SOUL'S TRAGEDY 289 LURIA 299 CHRISTMAS-EVE AND EASTER-DAY. Christmas-Eve 316 Easter-Day 327 MEN AND WOMEN. "Transcendentalism: A Poem in Twelve Books" 335 How It Strikes a Contemporary 336 Artemis Prologizes 337 An Epistle, containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician 338 Johannes Agricola in Meditation 341 Pictor Ignotus 341 Fra Lippo Lippi 342 Andrea del Sarto 346 The Bishop orders his Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church 348 Bishop Blougram's Apology 349 Cleon 358 Rudel To the Lady of Tripoli 361 One Word More 361 IN A BALCONY 364 Ben Karshook's Wisdom 372 DRAMATIS PERSONÃ?. James Lee's Wife. I. James Lee's Wife speaks at the Window 373 II. By the Fireside 373 III. In the Doorway 373 IV. Along the Beach 374 V. On the Cliff 374 VI. Reading a Book, under the Cliff 374 VII. Among the Rocks 375 VIII. Beside the Drawing-Board 375 IX. On Deck 376 Gold Hair: a Story of Pornic 376 The Worst of It 378 Dîs Aliter Visum; or, Le Byron de Nos Jours 379 Too Late 380 Abt Vogler, after he has been extemporizing upon the Musical Instrument of his Invention 382 Rabbi Ben Ezra 383 A Death in the Desert 385 Caliban upon Setebos; or, Natural Theology in the Island 392 Confessions 394 May and Death 395 Deaf and Dumb: a Group by Woolner 395 Prospice 395 Eurydice to Orpheus: a Picture by Leighton 395 Youth and Art 396 A Face 396 A Likeness 396 Mr. Sludge, "the Medium" 397 Apparent Failure 412 Epilogue 413 THE RING AND THE BOOK. I. The Ring and the Book 414 II. Half-Rome 427 III. The Other Half-Rome 441 IV. Tertium Quid 456 V. Count Guido Franceschini 471 VI. Giuseppe Caponsacchi 489 VII. Pompilia 508 VIII. Dominus Hyacinthus de Archangelis, Pauperum Procurator 525 IX. Juris Doctor Johannes-Baptista Bottinius, Fisci et Rev. Cam. Apostol. Advocatus 540 X. The Pope 554 XI. Guido 572 XII. The Book and the Ring 594 Helen's Tower 601 BALAUSTION'S ADVENTURE, including a Transcript from Euripides, 602 ARISTOPHANES' APOLOGY, including a Transcript from Euripides, being the Last Adventure of Balaustion 628 PRINCE HOHENSTIEL-SCHWANGAU, SAVIOUR OF SOCIETY 681 FIFINE AT THE FAIR. Prologue 701 Fifine at the Fair 702 Epilogue 735 RED COTTON NIGHT-CAP COUNTRY; OR TURF AND TOWERS 736[vii] THE INN ALBUM 773 PACCHIAROTTO, WITH OTHER POEMS. Prologue 802 Of Pacchiarotto, and how he worked in Distemper 802 At the "Mermaid" 807 House 808 Shop 809 Pisgah-Sights 810 Fears and Scruples 811 Natural Magic 811 Magical Nature 812 Bifurcation 812 Numpholeptos 812 Appearances 814 St. Martin's Summer 814 Herve Riel 815 A Forgiveness 817 Cenciaja 820 Filippo Baldinucci on the Privilege of Burial 823 Epilogue 827 THE AGAMEMNON OF Ã?SCHYLUS 830 LA SAISIAZ 849 THE TWO POETS OF CROISIC 859 Oh Love! Love 874 DRAMATIC IDYLS: FIRST SERIES. Martin Relph 875 Pheidippides 877 Halbert and Hob 879 Ivan Ivanovitch 880 Tray 887 Ned Bratts 887 DRAMATIC IDYLS: SECOND SERIES. Prologue 892 Echetlos 892 Clive 893 Muléykeh 897 Pietro of Abano 899 Doctor —— 906 Pan and Luna 909 Touch him ne'er so lightly 910 The Blind Man to the Maiden 910 Goldoni 910 JOCOSERIA. Wanting is—What? 911 Donald 911 Solomon and Balkis 913 Cristina and Monaldeschi 914 Mary Wollstonecraft and Fuseli 916 Adam, Lilith, and Eve 916 Ixion 916 Jochanan Hakkadosh 918 Never the Time and the Place 928 Pambo 928 FERISHTAH'S FANCIES. Prologue 929 I. The Eagle 929 II. The Melon-Seller 930 III. Shah Abbas 930 IV. The Family 932 V. The Sun 933 VI. Mihrab Shah 934 VII. A Camel-Driver 936 VIII. Two Camels 937 IX. Cherries 938 X. Plot-Culture 939 XI. A Pillar at Sebzevar 940 XII. A Bean-Stripe: also Apple-Eating 942 Epilogue 946 Rawdon Brown 947 The Founder of the Feast 947 The Names 947 Epitaph on Levi Lincoln Thaxter 947 Why I am a Liberal 948 PARLEYINGS WITH CERTAIN PEOPLE OF IMPORTANCE IN THEIR DAY. Apollo and the Fates 948 With Bernard de Mandeville 952 With Daniel Bartoli 955 With Christopher Smart 959 With George Bubb Dodington 961 With Francis Furini 964 With Gerard de Lairesse 970 With Charles Avison 974 Fust and his Friends: an Epilogue 979 ASOLANDO: FANCIES AND FACTS. Prologue 987 Rosny 987 Dubiety 987 Now 988 Humility 988 Poetics 988 Summum Bonum 988 A Pearl, a Girl 988 Speculative 988 White Witchcraft 989 Bad Dreams. I. 989 Bad Dreams. II. 989 Bad Dreams. III. 990 Bad Dreams. IV. 990 Inapprehensiveness 991 Which? 991 The Cardinal and the Dog 991 The Pope and the Net 992 The Bean-Feast 992 Muckle-Mouth Meg 993 Arcades Ambo 993 The Lady and the Painter 993[viii] Ponte dell' Angelo, Venice 994 Beatrice Signorini 996 Flute-Music, with an Accompaniment 999 "Imperante Augusto natus est—" 1001 Development 1002 Rephan 1003 Reverie 1005 Epilogue 1007 APPENDIX. I. An Essay on Shelley 1008 II. Notes and Illustrations 1014 III. A List of Mr. Browning's Poems and Dramas, arranged in the order of first publication in book form 1023 INDEX OF FIRST LINES OF POEMS 1027 GENERAL INDEX OF TITLES 1031