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Poems Of Robert Browning: Grammarian's Funeral, A

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

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Grammarian's Funeral, A

Shortly After The Revival Of Learning In Europe

Let us begin and carry up this corpse, Singing together. Leave we the common crofts, the vulgar thorpes Each in its tether Sleeping safe on the bosom of the plain, Cared - for till cock - crow: Look out if yonder be not day again Rimming the rock - row! That's the appropriate country; there, man's thought, Rarer, intenser, Self - gathered for an outbreak, as it ought, Chafes in the censer. Leave we the unlettered plain its herd and crop: Seek we sepulture On a tall mountain, citied to the top, Crowded with ...

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