Home-Thoughts, From Abroad

O, to be in England
Now that April's there,
And whoever wakes in England
Sees, some morning, unaware,
That the lowest boughs and the brush-wood sheaf
Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf,
While the chaffinch signs 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 hedge
Leans to the field and scatters a the clover
Blossoms and drewdrops - at the bent spray's edge -
That's the wise thrush; he sings each son twice over,
Lest you should think he never could recapture
The first fine careless rapture!
And though the fields look rough with hoary dew,
All will be gay when noontide wakes anew
The buttercups, the little children's dower,
- Far brighter than this gaudy melon-flower!

Robert Browning . 1812-1889

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Robert Browning
born 1812, died 1889

Poems

Home-Thoughts, From Abroad
Home-Thoughts, From The Sea
The Lost Leader
How They Brought The Good News From Ghent To Aix
Incident Of The French Camp
The Flower's Name
Meeting At Night

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