greykit.poetry — Robert Browning/dramatic-romances-and-lyrics

• 1845 [robert-browning] Home-Thoughts, from Abroad
  Dramatic Romances and Lyrics

  An exile's longing for an English April — the elm-tree bole in tiny leaf, the chaffinch on the orchard bough, the wise thrush singing each song twice over, the first fine careless rapture.

  #lyric#nature#England#nostalgia#1840s
• 1845 [robert-browning] Meeting at Night
  Dramatic Romances and Lyrics

  Grey sea, long black land, a boat pushed into slushy sand, three fields crossed to a farm — and the whole approach discharged in a tap at the pane, a scratched match, and two hearts beating each to each.

  #lyric#love#night#1840s