In a poem by this author, Nature itself says of an ugly landscape that "the Last Judgment's fire must cure this place, calcine its clods and set my prisoners free." The speaker of a poem by this author is unable to "see with your eyes, and set my heart / Beating by yours, and drink my fill / At your soul's springs," plaintively declaring: "Only I discern - Infinite passion, and the pain / Of finite hearts that yearn." The speaker of a poem by this author is guided by a "hoary (*) cripple, with malicious eye." The title of that poem is taken from a nonsense phrase spoken by Tom O'Bedlam in King Lear. In a poem by him, an emissary sees a bronze statue of Neptune cast by Claus of Innsbruck and learns of a woman with a "heart too soon made glad." For 10 points, name th
In a poem by this author, Nature itself says of an ugly landscape that "the Last Judgment's fire must cure this place, calcine its clods and set my prisoners free." The speaker of a poem by this author is unable to "see with your eyes, and set my heart / Beating by yours, and drink my fill / At your soul's springs," plaintively declaring: "Only I discern - Infinite passion, and the pain / Of finite hearts that yearn." The speaker of a poem by this author is guided by a "hoary (*) cripple, with malicious eye." The title of that poem is taken from a nonsense phrase spoken by Tom O'Bedlam in King Lear. In a poem by him, an emissary sees a bronze statue of Neptune cast by Claus of Innsbruck and learns of a woman with a "heart too soon made glad." For 10 points, name this English poet of dramatic monologues like "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" and "My Last Duchess."
In a poem by this author, Nature itself says of an ugly landscape that "the Last Judgment's fire must cure this place, calcine its clods and set my prisoners free.
Robert Browning