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Mettle and metal. Epigram (‘Ay, Trochu, in Paris which Prussians
environ’). 4 lines. First pbd W. Irvine and P. Honan, The book, the
ring and the poet, 1974. Ms dated 30 Apr 1871.
Untitled [‘In Dickens, sure, philosophy was lacking’]. 4 lines.
Epigram after reading Forster’s biography. First pbd The book of
the spiritual life, 1905 (by Lady Dilke [E. F. G. Pattison], ed Sir C.
Dilke). Ms in letter to Mrs Emily Pattison of 27 Dec 1871.
Untitled [‘He gazed and gazed and gazed and gazed, / Amazed,
amazed, amazed, amazed’]. Impromptu on painting of naked
Venus. Recorded and first pbd by Laura Troubridge in Memories
and reflections, 1925. Date c. 1872 from Troubridge’s age at time
of anecdote.
Untitled. Trn from Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, lines 750–9. 25 Oct
1874. Unpbd.
Untitled [‘A prig, Sir, is Coventry Patmore!’]. 4 lines. Unpbd. In letter
to George Murray Smith 12 Mar 1875.
Untitled [‘Wagner gave six concerts: five’]. 4 lines. First pbd Amer
Art Assoc catalogue 16 Dec 1929 from ms dated 21 May 1877, now
lost.
Replies to challenges to rhyme. 6 items: ‘If ever you meet a rhinoceros’
(4 lines); ‘Hang your kickshaws and your made-dishes’ (3
lines); ‘You may at Pekin as at Poggibonsi’ (2 lines); ‘Ah, massa,
such a fiery oss’ (4 lines); ‘Venus, sea froth’s child’ (4 lines);
‘ “Horns make the buck” cried rash Burdett’ (4 lines). First pbd
together New poems, ed F. G. Kenyon, 1914. First item pbd
Hallam Tennyson, Alfred Lord Tennyson: a memoir, 1897. Date c.
1878 by reference to item 5, which alludes to marriage of Hannah
de Rothschild.
Untitled [‘We don’t want to fight’]. 4 lines. Epigram on Disraeli.
First pbd Mary Gladstone (Mrs Drew): her diaries and letters, ed
Lucy Masterman, 1930. Impromptu recorded by Mary Gladstone
on 4 Apr 1878.
Untitled [‘Oh Love, Love’]. 18 lines. Trn of pt of chorus from
Euripides’ Hippolytus. Pbd with acknowledgement J. P. Mahaffy,
Euripides, 1879. Mahaffy dates receipt of Browning’s lines 18 Dec
1878.
Untitled [‘The blind man to the maiden said’]. 20 lines. Trn of verses
by Wilhelmine von Hillern. Pbd with acknowledgement to ‘a
friend’ by Clara Bell in her trn of von Hillern’s romance The hour
will come, 1879. Browning’s ms not extant.
The delivery to the secular arm: a scene during the existence of the
Spanish Inquisition at Antwerp 1570. 5 lines. First pbd New
poems, ed Kenyon, 1914. Trn of lines by Calderón intended as
motto for painting by Browning’s son Pen (executed: see The
Browning collections, ed Kelley and Coley, 1984, k21). Two mss
dated 28 July 1880; the other is entitled ‘A scene in the building of
the inquisitors at Antwerp’.
Gerousios oinos. First pbd Cornhill Mag Apr 1914. 48 lines. In proofs
of Jocoseria but withdrawn from vol before pbn. Ms not extant;
date probably 1882.
Untitled [‘And to these Rhodians she, the sharp-eyed one’]. 12 lines.
First pbd New poems, ed F. G. Kenyon, 1914. Epigram on current
court case based on trn from Pindar. Ms dated 10 Jan 1884 (for
1883); another ms in letter to J. D. Williams 10 Mar 1883.
K. de K. Bronson [‘Pray, do I write your name the proper way?’]. 4
lines. First pbd (photograph of ms) The Browning collections, ed
Kelley and Coley, 1984. Ms dated 4 Nov 1883.
Untitled [‘All sorts of singers have this common vice’]. 4 lines. Pall
Mall Gazette 13 Dec 1883 with inaccurate report of origin.
Impromptu trn from Horace in album belonging to Felix
Moscheles. Dated by Moscheles 10 July 1883. Not collected by
Browning. Another version beginning ‘In the whole tribe of
singers is this vice’ in letter to Frederick Lehmann 29 Dec 1884;
first pbd Baylor Browning Interests 24 1975.
Untitled [‘The air one breathes with Smith may be the sharper: / But
save me from Scirocco’s heat in Harper!’]. First pbd Letters of
Browning, ed. T. L. Hood, 1933. Ms in letter to F. J. Furnivall 17 Feb
1884.
Untitled [‘Be the next three months a game at Tennis – / Of which I
am the ball – at the end comes Venice!’]. First pbd in More than
friend: the letters of Browning to Katharine de Kay Bronson, ed
M. Meredith, Waco TX and Winfield KS 1985. In letter of 13 Apr
1884.
Untitled limerick [‘There was a sky-painter at Folkestone’]. First
pbd Learned lady: letters from Browning to Mrs Thomas
FitzGerald, ed E. C. McAleer, 1966. Ms of letter dated 26 Apr 1884.
Untitled [‘All we can dream of loveliness within’. First pbd Mrs C. J.
Bloomfield-Moore, Lippincott’s Mag May 1890. Concluding 4
lines of sonnet composed Christmas 1884 with set rhymes and
subject (‘Keely’s discovery’). Lines 1–10 of sonnet not given; ms
not extant.
Untitled [‘Thou, whom these eyes saw never, – say friends true’]. 7
lines. Poet-Lore Aug 1889. Epitaph for tomb of Levi Lincoln
Thatcher. Not collected by Browning. Two mss dated 19 Apr 1885.
Untitled [‘Her advent was not hailed with shouts’]. 4 lines. First pbd
Marie and Squire Bancroft, The Bancrofts: recollections of sixty
years, 1909. Impromptu welcome for Marie Bancroft at dinner,
recorded by her husband on menu card. No ms. Conjectural date
of occasion 29 June 1885.
Last poem [‘I dined at Natorp’s yester-eve’]. 4 lines. First pbd Poems,
ed Pettigrew and Collins, 1981. Ms in undated letter to
unidentified friend accepting invitation to dinner; conjectural
date between 1879 and 1887.
Untitled [‘Oh Love, I bring no posies’]. 5 lines. Facs pbd The Browning
collections, ed Kelley and Coley, 1984, who date it c. 1885.
Epps. First pbd Cornhill Mag Oct 1913. Ms dated 6 Jan 1886.
Untitled [‘Yellow and pale as ripened corn’]. 4 lines. First pbd by
Ernest Rhys, Sir Frederic Leighton, 1895. Motto for a painting by
Leighton. Ms undated; Leighton’s painting dated 1887.
Untitled [‘Bancroft, the message-bearing wire’]. 4 lines. First pbd by
Mrs C. L. Bloomfield-Moore, Lippincott’s Mag May 1890. Lines
composed for a birthday telegram sent 3 Oct 1887.
Margaret E. Keep. Magari. 8 lines, dated 13 Dec 1887, with the note
‘Improvised by Robert Browning’. Unpbd.
Untitled [‘Horns to bulls, gave nature’]. 8 lines. First pbd Anderson
Galleries catalogue 8 Apr 1936. Trn from Anacreontic verse; ms
with original Greek sent to Felix Moscheles 30 July 1888.
Untitled [‘Hail to the man who upward strives’]. 8 lines. In Letters of
Felix Mendelssohn to Ignaz and Charlotte Moscheles, tr and ed
Felix Moscheles, 1888. Trn of 2 quatrains by Karl Klingemann
written for separate birthday celebrations (1832, 1844) in honour
of Ignaz Moscheles. Not collected by Browning.
The isle’s enchantress. Pall Mall Gazette 26 Mar 1889. 5 lines. Motto
for a painting by Felix Moscheles. Pbd by Moscheles and not collected
by Browning.
Untitled [‘And as I wandered by the happy shores’]. 5 lines. First pbd
Felix Moscheles, Fragments of an autobiography, 1899. Early
version of motto for Moscheles’ painting, replaced by preceding
item.
Untitled [‘What seems a soul where Love’s outside the porch’]. 30
July 1889. Italian trn entered in album. Facs in M. S. Porter,
Recollections of Louisa May Alcott, John Greenleaf Whittier, and
Robert Browning, Boston 1893.
Untitled [‘Is Loredano proved the worst of vipers’]. 2 lines in a letter
to K. de K. Bronson, 5 Nov 1889. Pbd in More than friend, ed
Meredith.
Untitled [‘Here I’m gazing, wide awake, / Robert Browning, no
mistake!’]. First pbd W. M. Rossetti, Mag of Art Apr 1890. Ms
written below pencil sketch by G. D. Giles dated 24 Nov 1889.
Inscription on an ancient sundial at Newquay, Cornwall. Trn of
Latin inscription. First pbd Daily Telegraph 28 Feb 1997. Written
c. 1889.
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