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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

Page 713

Robert Browning. (1812–1889) (continued)

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    Have you found your life distasteful?
  My life did, and does, smack sweet.
Was your youth of pleasure wasteful?
  Mine I saved and hold complete.
Do your joys with age diminish?
  When mine fail me, I’ll complain.
Must in death your daylight finish?
  My sun sets to rise again.

At the “Mermaid.” Stanza 10.

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“With this same key
Shakespeare unlocked his heart” 1 once more!
Did Shakespeare? If so, the less Shakespeare he!

House. x.

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God’s justice, tardy though it prove perchance,
Rests never on the track until it reach
Delinquency. 2

Cenciaja.

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    Good, to forgive;
  Best, to forget!
  Living, we fret;
Dying, we live.

Dedication to La Saisiaz.

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Can we love but on condition that the thing we love must die?

La Saisiaz.

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    Sky—what a scowl of cloud
  Till, near and far,
Ray on ray split the shroud:
  Splendid, a star!

The two Poets of Croisic.

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As if true pride
Were not also humble!

In an Album.

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    Wanting is—what?
  Summer redundant,
  Blueness abundant,
    Where is the blot?

Wanting—is what?

Note 1.
See Wordsworth, page 485. [back]

Note 2.
See Herbert, page 206. [back]

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