Browning's Shorter Poems (eBook)

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Robert Browning (Herausgeber)

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2018
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Selected and edited by Franklin Baker. According to Wikipedia: 'Robert Browning (1812 - 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets.'
Selected and edited by Franklin Baker. According to Wikipedia: "e;Robert Browning (1812 - 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets."e;

THE BISHOP ORDERS HIS TOMB AT SAINT PRAXED'S CHURCH


 

ROME, 15--

 

Vanity, saith the preacher, vanity!

Draw round my bed: is Anselm keeping back?

Nephews--sons mine ... ah God, I know not! Well,

She, men would have to be your mother once,

Old Gandolf deg. envied me, so fair she was!                                      deg.5

What's done is done, and she is dead beside,

Dead long ago, and I am Bishop since.

And as she died so must we die ourselves,

And thence ye may perceive the world's a dream.

Life, how and what is it? As here I lie                                      10

In this state-chamber, dying by degrees,

Hours and long hours in the dead night, I ask

"Do I live, am I dead?" Peace, peace seems all.

Saint Praxed's ever was the church for peace;

And so, about this tomb of mine. I fought

With tooth and nail to save my niche, ye know:

--Old Gandolf cozened me, despite my care;

Shrewd was that snatch from out the corner South

He graced his carrion with, God curse the same!

Yet still my niche is not so cramped but thence                              20

One sees the pulpit o' the epistle-side,

And somewhat of the choir, those silent seats,

And up into the aery dome where live

The angels, and a sunbeam's sure to lurk:

And I shall fill my slab of basalt there,

And 'neath my tabernacle take my rest,

With those nine columns round me, two and two,

The odd one at my feet where Anselm stands:

Peach-blossom marble all, the rare, the ripe

As fresh-poured red wine of a mighty pulse,                                  30

--Old Gandolf with his paltry onion-stone, deg.                                  deg.31

Put me where I may look at him! True peach,

Rosy and flawless: how I earned the prize!

Draw close: that conflagration of my church

--What then? So much was saved if aught were missed!

My sons, ye would not be my death? Go dig

The white-grape vineyard where the oil-press stood,

Drop water gently till the surface sink,

And if ye find... Ah God, I know not, I!...

Bedded in store of rotten fig-leaves soft,                                   40

And corded up in a tight olive-frail, deg.                                       deg.41

Some lump, ah God, of _lapis lazuli_, deg.                                       deg.42

Big as a Jew's head cut off at the nape,

Blue as a vein o'er the Madonna's breast...

Sons, all have I bequeathed you, villas, all,

That brave Frascati deg. villa, with its bath,                                   deg.46

So, let the blue lump poise between my knees,

Like God the Father's globe on both his hands

Ye worship in the Jesu Church, so gay,

For Gandolf shall not choose but see and burst!                              50

Swift as a weaver's shuttle fleet our years:

Man goeth to the grave, and where is he?

Did I say, basalt for my slab, sons? Black--

'Twas ever antique-black I meant! How else

Shall ye contrast my frieze to come beneath?

The bas-relief in bronze ye promised me,

Those Pans and Nymphs ye wot of, and perchance

Some tripod, thyrsus, with a vase or so,

The Saviour at his sermon on the mount,

Saint Praxed in a glory, and one Pan                                         60

Ready to twitch the Nymph's last garment off,

And Moses with the tables deg. ... but I know                                    deg.62

Ye mark me not! What do they whisper thee,

Child of my bowels, Anselm? Ah, ye hope

To revel down my villas while I gasp

Bricked o'er with beggar's mouldy travertine

Which Gandolf from his tomb-top chuckles at!

Nay, boys, ye love me--all of jasper, then!

'Tis jasper ye stand pledged to, lest I grieve

My bath must needs be left behind, alas!                                     70

One block, pure green as a pistachio-nut,

There's plenty jasper somewhere in the world--

And have I not Saint Praxed's ear to pray

Horses for ye, and brown Greek manuscripts,

And mistresses with great smooth marbly limbs?

--That's if ye carve my epitaph aright,

Choice Latin, picked phrase, Tully's deg. every word,                            deg.77

No gaudy ware like Gandolf's second line--

Tully, my masters? Ulpian deg. serves his need!                                  deg.79

And then how I shall lie thro' centuries,                                    80

And hear the blessed mutter of the mass,

And see God made and eaten all day long,

And feel the steady candle-flame, and taste

Good strong thick stupefying incense-smoke!

For as I lie here, hours of the dead night,

Dying in state and by such slow degrees,

I fold my arms as if they clasped a crook,

And stretch my feet forth straight as stone can point,

And let the bedclothes, for a mortcloth, drop

Into great laps and folds of sculptor's-work:                                90

And as yon tapers dwindle, and strange thoughts

Grow, with a certain humming in my ears,

About the life before I lived this life,

And this life too, popes, cardinals, and priests,

Saint Praxed at his sermon on the mount,

Your tall pale mother with her talking eyes,

And new-found agate urns as fresh as day,

And marble's language, Latin pure, discreet,

--Aha, ELUCESCEBAT deg. quoth our friend?                                        deg.99

No Tully, said I, Ulpian at the best!                                       100

Evil and brief hath been my pilgrimage.

All _lapis_, all, sons! Else I give the Pope

My villas! Will ye ever eat my heart?

Ever your eyes were as a lizard's quick,

They glitter like your mother's for my soul.

Or ye would heighten my impoverished frieze,

Piece out its starved design, and fill my vase

With grapes, and add a visor and a Term,

And to the tripod ye would tie a lynx

That in his struggle throws the thyrsus down,                               110

To comfort me on my entablature

Whereon I am to...

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.3.2018
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Literatur Lyrik / Dramatik Lyrik / Gedichte
ISBN-10 1-4553-8683-9 / 1455386839
ISBN-13 978-1-4553-8683-3 / 9781455386833
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