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Poems Of Robert Browning: Epilogue

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

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Epilogue

At the midnight in the silence of the sleep - time, When you set your fancies free, Will they pass to where - by death, fools think, imprisoned - Low he lies who once so loved you, whom you loved so, - Pity me?

Oh to love so, be so loved, yet so mistaken! What had I on earth to do With the slothful, with the mawkish, the unmanly? Like the aimless, helpless, hopeless, did I drivel - Being - who?

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, ...

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