Robert Browning

I
All June I bound the rose in sheaves
Now, rose by rose,
I strip the

Scene
— Constantinople; the house of a Greek Conjurer
1521
Paracelsus

He gazed and gazed and gazed and gazed,
Amazed, amazed, amazed, amazed

No more wine
then we'll push back chairs and talk
A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith
We ought to have our Abbey back, you see

The thought of Eglamor's least like a thought,
And yet a false one, was, "Man shrinks to nought"If matched with symbols of immensity;"Must quail, forsooth, before a quiet sky"Or sea, too little for their quietude:"And...

Scene
—Inside the Turret on the Hill above Asolo
Luigi and his Mother entering
If there blew wind, you'd hear a long sigh,

I
Said Abner, ``At last thou art come
Ere I tell, ere thou speak,``Kiss my cheek, wish me well
'' Then I wished it, and did kiss his cheek