Home Thoughts, From Abroad

Robert Browning

1812 to 1889

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The buttercups, the little children's dower
While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough
Blossoms and dewdrops—at the bent spray's edge—
That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over,
Sees, some morning, unaware,
All will be gay when noontide wakes anew
And the white-throat builds, and all the swallows!
—Far brighter than this gaudy melon-flower!
Oh, to be in England
And after April, when May follows,
The first fine careless rapture!
That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf
Lest you should think he never could recapture
And though the fields look rough with hoary dew,
Leans to the field and scatters on the clover
In England—now!
And whoever wakes in England
Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf,
Hark I where my blossomed pear tree in the hedge
Now that April's there,