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Title: Garden Fancies: The Flower's Name Author: Robert Browning [More Titles by Browning] Here's the garden she walked across, Down this side of the gravel-walk This flower she stopped at, finger on lip, Roses, if I live and do well, Flower, you Spaniard, look that you grow not; Where I find her not, beauties vanish;
NOTE This poem and "Sibrandus Schafnaburgensis," a companion poem, appeared in _Hood's Magazine_, July, 1844, under the title of "Garden Fancies." "The Flower's Name" is a description of a garden by a lover whose conception of its beauty is heightened and made vital by the memories it enshrines. Of this poem Miss Barrett wrote to Browning, "Then the 'Garden Fancies'--some of the stanzas about the name of the flower, with such exquisite music in them, and grace of every kind--and with that beautiful and musical use of the word 'meandering,' which I never remember having seen used in relation to sound before. It does to mate with your '_simmering_ quiet' in _Sordello_, which brings the summer air into the room as sure as you read it." (_Letters of R. B. and E. B. B._, I, 134.) 10. _Box._ An evergreen shrub, dwarf varieties of which are used for low hedges or the borders of flower-beds. [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |