To leaven the lump, where lies
Mind prostrate through knowledge owed
To the loveless Power it tries

To withstand, how vain! In flowed

Ever resistless fact:

No more than the passive clay 40 Disputes the potter's act,

Could the whelmed mind disobey
Knowledge the cataract.

But, perfect in every part,

Has the potter's moulded shape,
Leap of man's quickened heart,
Throe of his thought's escape,
Stings of his soul which dart

Through the barrier of flesh, till keen

She climbs from the calm and clear, 50 Through turbidity all between,

From the known to the unknown here, Heaven's "Shall be," from Earth's "Has been"?

Where, amid what strifes and storms
May wait the adventurous quest,
Power is Love transports, transforms
Who aspired from worst to best,
Sought the soul's world, spurne the

worms'.

I have faith such end shall be From the first, Power was

Life has made clear to me

I knew.

That, strive but for closer view, Love were as plain to see.

When see? When there dawns a day,

If not on the homely earth,

Then yonder, worlds away,

Where the strange and new have birth, And Power comes full in play.

ба

70

EPILOGUE. Immortality

Browning's "Crossing the Bar."

AT the midnight in the silence of the sleeptime,

When you set your fancies free, Will they pass to where

think, imprisoned

by death, fools

Low he lies who once so loved you, whom you loved so,

- Pity me?

Oh to love so, be so loved, yet so mistaken!
What had I on earth to do

With the slothful, with the mawkish, the 80 unmanly?

Like the aimless, helpless, hopeless, did I drivel

OF

fession.

1835. PARACELSUS.

1837. STRAFFORD:

Tragedy.

1840. SORDELLO.

An

1841. Bells and Pomegranates, No. I., PIPPA PASSES.

1842. Bells and Pomegranates, No. II., KING VICTOR AND KING CHARLES.

1842. Bells and Pomegranates, No. III., DRAMATIC LYRICS. Cavalier Tunes

I. Marching Along.

II. Give a Rouse.

III. My Wife Gertrude.1 Italy and France

I. Italy.2

II. France.3

and Cloister

Camp Camp (French).
II. Cloister (Spanish).

In a Gondola.
Artemis Prologuizes.
Waring.

Queen Worship

I. Rudel and the Lady of
Tripoli.

II. Cristina.
Madhouse Cells

I. [Johannes Agricola.®]
II. (Porphyria.7]
Through the Metidja to Abd-
el-Kadr, 1842.

The Pied Piper of Hamelin,

1843. Bells and Pomegranates, No. IV.,
THE RETURN OF THE
DRUSES: A Tragedy in Five
Acts.
1843. Bells and Pomegranates, No. V., A
BLOT IN THE 'SCUTCH-
EON: A Tragedy in Three Acts.

1 Afterwards called "Boot and Saddle."
Afterwards called "My Last Duchess."

3 Afterwards called "Count Gismond." • Afterwards called "Incident of the French Camp."

5 Afterwards called "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister."

Afterwards called "Johannes Agricola in Meditation," was first printed in The Monthly Repository, vol. x. N.S. 1836, pp. 45, 46.

7 Afterwards called "Porphyria's Lover," was first printed in The Monthly Repository, vol. x. N.S. 1836, pp. 43, 44.

DRAMATIC

AND LYRICS

ROMANCES

How they brought the Good
News from Ghent to Aix.

Pictor Ignotus. Florence, 15-.
Italy in England."
England in Italy.
The Lost Leader.
The Lost Mistress.

"10

Home Thoughts from Abroad
(I. "Oh to be in England."
II. "Here's to Nelson's
Memory." III. "Nobly
Cape St. Vincent." 11)
The Tomb at St. Praxed's.12
Garden Fancies

I. The Flower's Name.18
II. Sibrandus Schafnabur-
gensis.14
France and Spain

I. The Laboratory (Ancien
Régime).15

II. The Confessional.
The Flight of the Duchess.16
Earth's Immortalities.

Song, "Nay but you, who do

not love her."

The Boy and the Angel.17

Night and Morning (I. Night,18 II. Morning).19

Claret and Tokay.20

8 Afterwards called "The Italian in England." • Afterwards called "The Englishman in Italy."

10 Afterwards printed as the third section of "Nationality in Drinks."

Afterwards called "Home Thoughts from the Sea."

12 Afterwards called "The Bishop orders his Tomb in St. Praxed's Church," was first printed in Hood's Magazine, vol. iii. March 1845, pp. 237-239.

13, 14 First printed in Hood's Magazine, vol. ii. July 1844, pp. 45-48.

15 First printed in Hood's Magazine, vol. i. June 1844, pp. 513, 514.

16 Sections 1 to o, first printed in Hood's Maga zine, vol. iii. April 1845, pp. 313-318.

17 First printed in Hood's Magazine, vol. ii. August 1844, pp. 140-142.

18 Afterwards called "Meeting at Night." 19 Afterwards called "Parting at Morning." 20 Afterwards printed as the first and second sections of "Nationality in Drinks.

Old Pictures in Florence.

In a Balcony.

Saul. (See note 1.)

"De Gustibus-"

Women and Roses.
Protus.

Holy-Cross Day.

The Guardian Angel: A Picture at Fano.

Cleon.

First part only (sections 1-9); the second part was added and included with it in "Men and Women," 1855. vol. ii. p. 111.

BALAUSTION'S ADVENTURE,

including a Transcript from Euripides.

HOHENSTIEL

SCHWANGAU, SAVIOUR OF SOCIETY.

COUNTRY, OR TURF AND TOWERS.

First printed in a pamphlet entitled Two Poems. By Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning." 8vo. London, 1854.

3 First printed in The Atlantic Monthly, vol. xiii. May 1864, p. 506.

First printed in The Keepsake for 1857.

s First printed in The Atlantic Monthly, vol. xiii. June 1864, p. 694.

• First printed in the Catalogue of the Royal Academy Exhibition 1864, afterwards called "Eurydice to Orpheus."

7 First printed in "The Poetical Works of Robert Browning," six vols. 1868; vol. vi.

p. 151.