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Poetry Lighthouse - April 2008

Robert Browning - Natural Magic

April 4th 2008 10:05

Poems by Robert Browning

NATURAL MAGIC

All I can say is--I saw it!
The room was as bare as your hand.
I locked in the swarth little lady,--I swear,
From the head to the foot of her--well, quite as bare!
"No Nautch° shall cheat me," said I, "taking my stand °5

At this bolt which I draw!" And this bolt--I withdraw it,
And there laughs the lady, not bare, but embowered
With--who knows what verdure, o'erfruited, o'erflowered?
Impossible! Only--I saw it!

All I can sing is--I feel it! 10
This life was as blank as that room;
I let you pass in here. Precaution, indeed?
Walls, ceiling, and floor,--not a chance for a weed!
Wide opens the entrance: where's cold, now, where's gloom?
No May to sow seed here, no June to reveal it,
Behold you enshrined in these blooms of your bringing,
These fruits of your bearing--nay, birds of your winging!
A fairy-tale! Only--I feel it!

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Comment by tlcorbin

April 5th 2008 03:12

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That darn Browning provoked some powerfully sensual imagery with that hot little offering katyzzz.

Raven

Comment by katyzzz

April 5th 2008 04:36

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All I can say it "he's quite proud of himself" unless of course he means something else.

Comment by tlcorbin

April 6th 2008 02:55

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I failedto recognize any humbleness katyzzz.

Raven

Comment by katyzzz

April 6th 2008 03:43

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ha ha ha ha , his feelings towards the love of his life were supposedly on a very hight plane, one has to wonder about this one though.

Comment by tlcorbin

April 6th 2008 13:39

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It would appear that he was down to earth about it, ya can't get any earthier than that except to roll in it, which may have been the real point of the ode....., what'd you think katyzzz? Earthy and powerful? Raven

Comment by katyzzz

April 6th 2008 18:10

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Yes, Raven plus add weird, I wouldn't have wanted him, I've seen enough around here.

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