Robert Browning was born on May 7th 1812. He is best remembered for his dark and ironic dramatic monologues; one critic commented that Thomas Hardy, T.S. Eliot and Rudyard Kipling "all learned from Browning's exploration of the possibilities of dramatic poetry and of colloquial idiom"
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Robert Browning was born in Camberwell, London on this day in 1812.
“Rats
They fought the dogs and killed the cats,
And bit the babies in the cradles,
And ate the cheeses out of the vats,
And licked the soup from the cook's own ladles.
Split open the kegs of salted sprats,
Made nests inside men's Sunday hats,
And even spoiled the women's chats
By drowning their speaking
With shrieking and squeaking
In fifty different sharps and flats.”
―from "The Pied Piper of Hamelin"
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Robert Browning’s famous verse retelling of the medieval legend of the Pied Piper is renowned for its humor and vivid wordplay. When the selfish townspeople of Hamelin refuse to pay the piper for spiriting away the hordes of rats that had plagued them, he exacts his revenge by luring away their greatest treasure, the children of the town. With illustrations by Kate Greenaway.
Robert Browning was born in Camberwell, London on this day in 1812.
“Rats
They fought the dogs and killed the cats,
And bit the babies in the cradles,
And ate the cheeses out of the vats,
And licked the soup from the cook's own ladles.
Split open the kegs of salted sprats,
Made nests inside men's Sunday hats,
And even spoiled the women's chats
By drowning their speaking
With shrieking and squeaking
In fifty different sharps and flats.”
―from "The Pied Piper of Hamelin"
They fought the dogs and killed the cats,
And bit the babies in the cradles,
And ate the cheeses out of the vats,
And licked the soup from the cook's own ladles.
Split open the kegs of salted sprats,
Made nests inside men's Sunday hats,
And even spoiled the women's chats
By drowning their speaking
With shrieking and squeaking
In fifty different sharps and flats.”
―from "The Pied Piper of Hamelin"
*
Robert Browning’s famous verse retelling of the medieval legend of the Pied Piper is renowned for its humor and vivid wordplay. When the selfish townspeople of Hamelin refuse to pay the piper for spiriting away the hordes of rats that had plagued them, he exacts his revenge by luring away their greatest treasure, the children of the town. With illustrations by Kate Greenaway.
1923.12.24
《暫時的安慰》：
自從南高峰上那夜以後，.
五個月不曾經驗這樣神秘的境界了。
月光浸沒著孤寂的我，
轉溫潤了我的孤寂的心，
涼透了的肌骨都震動了；
翠微山上無數森嚴的黑影。
方才還像猙獰的鬼兵，
此時都好像和善可親了。
山前，直望到長辛店的一線電燈光，
天邊，直望到那微茫的小星。
一切都受了那靜穆的光明的洗禮，
一切都是和平的美，
一切都是慈祥的愛。
山寺的晚鐘，
秘魔崖的狗叫，
驚醒了我暫時的迷夢。
是的，暫時的！
亭子面前，花房的草門掀動了，
一個花匠的頭伸出來，
四面一望，又縮進去了。——
靜穆的月光，究竟比不上草門裡的爐火！
暫時的安慰，也究竟解不了明日的煩悶呵！
胡適自跋:
英國詩人 Browning 影響我不少。但他的盲目的樂觀主義，---如他的Pippa Passes ------毫不能影響到我。此詩前半幾乎近似他了，然而只能一瞥的心境，不能長久存在。我不是悲觀者。但我的樂觀主義和他不相同。
Pippa Passes is a dramatic piece, as much play as poetry, by Robert Browning. It was published in 1841 as the first volume of his Bells and Pomegranates series, in a very inexpensive two-column edition for sixpence, and next republished in Poems[clarification needed] in 1848, when it received much more critical attention. It was dedicated to Thomas Noon Talfourd, who had recently attained fame as the author of the tragedy Ion.
Full text of "Pippa passes. With an introd. by Arthur Symons and a ...
Pippa Passes is a dramatic poem, and is perhaps open to Browning's own criticism. It may equally be defended by other words of his, in the dedicatory letter ...
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