BY ROBERT BROWNING
Robert Browning (1812-1889): An English poet. His poems are frequently difficult and obscure, but are marked by originality and dramatic power, and by virtue of courage, manliness, and hopefulness, appeal to young readers as well as to older ones. He wrote "Men and Women," "Dramatis Person?," "Pippa Passes," "The Ring and the Book," and many other poems.
Robert Browning
Oh, to be in England Now that April"s there, And whoever wakes in England Sees,some morning unaware,That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf Round the elm tree bole are in tiny leaf,While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England- now!
And after April, when May follows,
And the whitethroat builds and all the swallows! Hark, where my blossomed pear tree in the hedgeLeans to the field and scatters on the clover Blossoms and dewdrops, at the bent spray"s edge-That"s the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, Lest you should think he never could recaptureThe first fine careless rapture!
And though the fields look rough with hoary dew, All will be gay when noontide wakes anewThe buttercups, the little children"s dower- Far brighter than this gaudy melon-flower!