...record, and now then, with a lighter conscience I shall begin replying to your questions. But then — what I have printed gives no knowledge of me — it...begun, even, what I hope I was born to begin and end — ' HB a poem ' — and next, if I speak (and, God knows, feel) as if what you have read were sadly...

...record, and now then, with a lighter conscience I shall begin replying to your questions. But then — what I have printed gives no knowledge of me — it...I hope I was born to begin and end— ' RB a poem ' — and next, if I speak (and, God knows, feel), as if what you have read were sadly imperfect demonstrations...

...record, and now then, with a lighter conscience I shall begin replying to your questions. But then — what I have printed gives no knowledge of me — it...begun, even, what I hope I was born to begin and end — ' BB a poem ' — and next, if I speak (and, God knows, feel) as if what you have read were sadly...

...lighter conscience I shall begin replying to your questions. But then — what I have printed gives 110 knowledge of me — it evidences abilities of various...begun, even, what I hope I was born to begin and end — ' fi. B. a poem ' — and next, if I speak (and, God knows, feel) as if what you have read were...

...intended to be the crowning effort of his life, and in which he would for once drop the dramatic form. " But I never have begun even, what I hope I was born to begin and end — ' RB, a poem.'" So he writes to EBB (Vol. I, p. 17) and again in his next letter : "... I will do as you bid me, and...

...Barrett cannot, of course, be accepted quite literally: "What I have printed gives no knowledge of me^-it evidences abilities of various kinds, if you will—...begun even what I hope I was born to begin and end,— 'R. В., a poem.' " The love which finds dramatic expression in "Waring" was as sincere as that which...

...spoken." Browning had himself ambitions in this direction. He had written early in their acquaintance : " What I have printed gives no knowledge of me — it...hope I was born to begin and end — 'RB a poem.'" And again : "I always shiver involuntarily when I look — no, glance — at this First Poem of mine...

...if you will — and a dramatic sympathy with certain modifications of passion . . . But I have never begun, even, what I hope I was born to begin and end — ' RB, a poem.' " " That poem, however, was already begun — and we may suspect he knew it 1 Sonnets from the Portuguese,...

...speak — give you truth broken into prismatic hues, and fear the pure white light." Again he wrote, "I never have begun, even, what I hope I was born to begin and end, — 'RB', a poem." 2 And Mrs. Browning, usually a better spokesman for the typical English poet than is Browning himself,...

...speak — give you truth broken into prismatic hues, and fear the pure white light." Again he wrote, "I never have begun, even, what I hope I was born to begin and end, — 'RB', a poem."2 And Mrs. Browning, usually a better spokesman for the typical English poet than is Browning...