English Poetry III: From Tennyson to Whitman.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| 672. Memorabilia |
| | | Robert Browning (1812–1889) |
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| AH, did you once see Shelley plain, | |
| And did he stop and speak to you, | |
| And did you speak to him again? | |
| How strange it seems and new! | |
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| But you were living before that, | 5 |
| And also you are living after; | |
| And the memory I started at— | |
| My starting moves your laughter! | |
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| I crossed a moor, with a name of its own | |
| And a certain use in the world no doubt, | 10 |
| Yet a hand’s-breadth of it shines alone | |
| ’Mid the blank miles round about: | |
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| For there I picked up on the heather | |
| And there I put inside my breast | |
| A moulted feather, an eagle-feather! | 15 |
| Well, I forget the rest. | |
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