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共 300 题- The Lake Library Edition
- SELECTIONS FROM THE POEMS AND PLAYS OF ROBERT BROWNING
- Edited, with an Introduction by
- MYRA REYNOLDS
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION-- PAGE
- BIBLIOGRAPHY 57
- CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE 60
- SELECTIONS FROM BROWNING--
- NOTES 389
- INTRODUCTION
- THE LIFE OF BROWNING
- I am made up of an intensest life;
- THE POETRY OF BROWNING
- I say that man was made to grow, not stop.
- So, also, is it better that youth
- The Duchess learns from the gypsy
- FOOTNOTES:
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
- SELECTIONS
- FROM THE
- POEMS AND PLAYS
- OF
- ROBERT BROWNING
- SONGS FROM PARACELSUS
- II
- III
- CAVALIER TUNES
- MARCHING ALONG
- II
- GIVE A ROUSE
- III
- BOOT AND SADDLE
- THE LOST LEADER
- GARDEN FANCIES
- THE FLOWER'S NAME
- MEETING AT NIGHT
- PARTING AT MORNING
- EVELYN HOPE
- LOVE AMONG THE RUINS
- UP AT A VILLA--DOWN IN THE CITY
- A TOCCATA OF GALUPPI'S
- OLD PICTURES IN FLORENCE
- HOME-THOUGHTS, FROM ABROAD
- HOME-THOUGHTS, FROM THE SEA
- SAUL
- II
- III
- IV
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- IX
- XI
- XII
- XIII
- XIV
- XV
- XVI
- Then the truth came upon me. No harp more--no song more! outbroke--
- XVII
- XVIII
- XIX
- MY STAR
- TWO IN THE CAMPAGNA
- IN THREE DAYS
- THE GUARDIAN-ANGEL
- A PICTURE AT FANO
- MEMORABILIA
- INCIDENT OF THE FRENCH CAMP
- MY LAST DUCHESS
- FERRARA
- THE BOY AND THE ANGEL
- THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN;
- A CHILD'S STORY
- II
- III
- IV
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- IX
- XI
- XII
- XIII
- XIV
- XV
- THE FLIGHT OF THE DUCHESS
- II
- III
- IV
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- IX
- XI
- XII
- XIII
- XIV
- XV
- XVI
- XVII
- A GRAMMARIAN'S FUNERAL
- SHORTLY AFTER THE REVIVAL OF LEARNING IN EUROPE
- HOW IT STRIKES A CONTEMPORARY
- FRA LIPPO LIPPI
- ANDREA DEL SARTO
- CALLED "THE FAULTLESS PAINTER"
- THE BISHOP ORDERS HIS TOMB AT SAINT PRAXED'S CHURCH
- ROME, 15--
- CLEON
- ONE WORD MORE
- II
- III
- IV
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- IX
- XI
- XII
- XIII
- XIV
- XV
- XVI
- XVII
- XVIII
- XIX
- ABT VOGLER
- RABBI BEN EZRA
- CALIBAN UPON SETEBOS; OR NATURAL THEOLOGY IN THE ISLAND
- MAY AND DEATH
- PROSPICE
- A FACE
- O LYRIC LOVE
- PROLOGUE TO PACCHIAROTTO
- HOUSE
- SHOP
- HERVÉ RIEL
- II
- III
- IV
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- IX
- XI
- EPILOGUE TO THE TWO POETS OF CROISIC
- PHEIDIPPIDES
- MULÉYKEH
- WANTING IS--WHAT?
- NEVER THE TIME AND THE PLACE
- THE PATRIOT
- INSTANS TYRANNUS
- II
- III
- IV
- VI
- VII
- THE ITALIAN IN ENGLAND
- PROLOGUE TO ASOLANDO
- SUMMUM BONUM
- EPILOGUE TO ASOLANDO
- PIPPA PASSES
- A DRAMA
- INTRODUCTION
- NEW YEAR'S DAY AT ASOLO IN THE TREVISAN
- I. MORNING
- II.--NOON
- PHENE _begins, on his having long remained silent._
- JULES _interposes_
- JULES _resumes_
- III.--EVENING
- IV.--NIGHT
- SCENE.--PIPPA'S _chamber again. She enters it._
- NOTES
- SONGS FROM PARACELSUS
- SONG I
- SONG II. (Book IV)
- SONG III. (Book V)
- CAVALIER TUNES
- THE LOST LEADER
- HOW THEY BROUGHT THE GOOD NEWS FROM GHENT TO AIX
- THE FLOWER'S NAME
- MEETING AT NIGHT AND PARTING AT MORNING
- EVELYN HOPE
- LOVE AMONG THE RUINS
- UP AT A VILLA--DOWN IN THE CITY
- 43. _Scene-picture._ A picture advertising the new play.
- A TOCCATA OF GALUPPI'S
- OLD PICTURES IN FLORENCE
- 101. _Apollo._ At Delphi Apollo slew an enormous python.
- 103. _The Racer's frieze._ In the Parthenon.
- 206. _Intonaco._ The plaster that forms the ground for fresco work.
- 218. _Barret._ A kind of cap.
- 237. _Buonarroti._ Michael Angelo.
- 244. _Detur amanti._ "Let it be given to the one who loves it."
- 260. _Quod videas ante_--"Which you may have seen before."
- 276. _Alt to altissimo._ "High to highest."
- 277. _Beccaccia._ A woodcock.
- 2. _If our loves remain._ If we have a life after death.
- HOME-THOUGHTS FROM ABROAD
- HOME-THOUGHTS FROM THE SEA
- SAUL
- MY STAR
- TWO IN THE CAMPAGNA
- IN THREE DAYS
- THE GUARDIAN ANGEL
- 46. _My angel._ Cf. "My love," l. 54. Both refer to Mrs. Browning.
- MEMORABILIA
- INCIDENT OF THE FRENCH CAMP
- MY LAST DUCHESS
- THE BOY AND THE ANGEL
- THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN
- THE FLIGHT OF THE DUCHESS
- 101. _Struck at himself._ Amazed at his own importance.
- 135-153. Compare this lady with the one in "My Last Duchess."
- 315. _Quince-tinct._ Tincture of quince was used as a cosmetic.
- 533. _Gor-crow's flappers._ Wings of carrion crow.
- 581. _Like the spots._ Effects of phosphorescence.
- A GRAMMARIAN'S FUNERAL
- 14. _Sepulture._ Pronounced here, _sepúlture_. A burial place or tomb.
- 50. _Gowned._ Put on the scholastic gown.
- 95. _Soul-hydroptic._ "Hydroptic" is a rare word for "thirsty."
- HOW IT STRIKES A CONTEMPORARY
- 90. _The Corregidor._ The Spanish title for a magistrate.
- 115. _The Prado._ The chief fashionable promenade of Madrid.
- FRA LIPPO LIPPI
- 357. _Job._ See _Job_ i, 1.
- 377. _Iste perfecit opus._ "This one did the work."
- ANDREA DEL SARTO
- 93. _Morello_. A mountain of the Apennines and visible from Florence.
- 241. _Scudi._ Italian coins worth about ninety-six cents each.
- 261. _Four great walls._ _Revelation_, xxi, 15-17.
- THE BISHOP ORDERS HIS TOMB AT ST. PRAXED'S CHURCH
- 41. _Olive-frail._ A basket made of rushes, used for packing olives.
- CLEON
- 1. _Sprinkled isles._ Presumably the Sporades, the "scattered isles."
- 41. _Zeus._ The chief of the Grecian gods.
- 47. _That epos._ An epic poem by Cleon engraved on golden plates.
- 304. _Sappho._ A Greek poetess. She wrote about 600 B.C.
- 305. _Æschylus_, a Greek tragic poet, 525-456 B.C.
- ONE WORD MORE
- 2. _Naming me._ Giving a name to the volume for me.
- 164. _Galileo._ A celebrated Italian astronomer (1564-1642).
- ABT VOGLER
- 16. _Nether Springs._ Remotest origins.
- RABBI BEN EZRA
- 157. _All that is_, etc. Cf. "Abt Vogler," ll. 69-80.
- CALIBAN UPON SETEBOS
- MAY AND DEATH
- PROSPICE
- A FACE
- O LYRIC LOVE
- A WALL
- HOUSE AND SHOP
- HERVÉ RIEL
- EPILOGUE TO THE TWO POETS OF CROISIC
- PHEIDIPPIDES
- 19. _Eretria._ An important city on the island of Euboea.
- 20. _Hellas._ Greece.
- 47. _Filleted victim._ A victim whose head was decked with ribbons.
- 62. _Erebos._ Hades, the abode of shades or departed spirits.
- 83. _Fennel._ The Greek word Marathon means fennel.
- 89. _Miltiades._ One of the ten Athenian generals.
- 105. _Marathon day._ In the month of September, B. C. 490.
- 106. _Akropolis._ The stronghold of Athens.
- MULÉYKEH
- WANTING IS--WHAT?
- THE PATRIOT
- INSTANS TYRANNUS
- THE ITALIAN IN ENGLAND
- 75. _Duomo._ The most famous church in Padua.
- PROLOGUE TO ASOLANDO
- SUMMUM BONUM
- EPILOGUE TO ASOLANDO
- Compare this poem and Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar."
- PIPPA PASSES
- INTRODUCTION
- MORNING
- INTERLUDE I
- 111. _Malamocco._ A little town on an island near Venice.
- NOON
- 54. _Hippolyta._ The Queen of the Amazons on a fine horse from Numidia.
- 306. _Ancona._ A lovely city in eastern Italy.
- INTERLUDE II
- 14. _Chaldee._ A Semitic dialect.
- 39. _Zwanziger._ A twenty-kreuzer piece of money.
- 47. _Prince Metternich._ A celebrated Austrian statesman. (1773-1859.)
- EVENING
- INTERLUDE III
- 22. _Deuzans_, etc. Varieties of apples.
- 66. _Polenta._ A coarse corn-meal pudding.
- NIGHT
- 51. _Correggio._ An Italian artist (1494-1534).
- 72. _Podere._ (Plural, _poderi_.) A small farm or manor.
- 83. _Cesena._ An Episcopal city about twelve miles from Forli.
- EPILOGUE
- Transcriber's note