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Poems Of Robert Browning: Bishop Orders His Tomb At Saint Praxed's Church, The

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From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Browning, Robert

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Bishop Orders His Tomb At Saint Praxed's Church, The

Vanity, saith the preacher, vanity! Draw round my bed: is Anselm keeping back? Nephews - sons mine . . . ah God, I know not! Well - She, men would have to be your mother once, Old Gandolf envied me, so fair she was! What's done is done, and she is dead beside, Dead long ago, and I am Bishop since, And as she died so must we die ourselves, And thence ye may perceive the world's a dream. Life, how and what is it? As here I lie In this state - chamber, dying by degrees, Hours and long hours in the dead night, I ask "Do I ...

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