Home-Thoughts, from Abroad
Oh, to be in England
Now that April's there,
And whoever wakes in England
Sees, some morning, unaware,
That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf
Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf,
While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough
In England—now!
And after April, when May follows,
And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows!
Hark, where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge
Leans to the field and scatters on the clover
Blossoms and dewdrops—at the bent spray's edge—
That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over,
Lest you should think he never could recapture
The first fine careless rapture!
And though the fields look rough with hoary dew,
All will be gay when noontide wakes anew
The buttercups, the little children's dower
—Far brighter than this gaudy melon-flower!
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Who wrote the poem "Home-Thoughts, from Abroad"?
Robert Browing (May 7, 1812 – December 12, 1889)
Robert Browning was an English poet and
playwright in the Victorian era and was widely known for his dramatic
monologues. His father was a bank clerk and assembled a personal library of
6,000 books, which became the foundation of Browning’s education. He married
the eminent Victorian poet, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, in 1846, and the couple
moved to Italy and lived there until the wife’s death in 1861. He began to
attain literary fame in his 50’s and was widely respected in his later years.
"Home-Thoughts, from Abroad" explanation
In the poem, the speaker, away from his
home country, England, expresses his strong feeling of missing it with a deep
affinity with nature. The poem presumably reflects the feeling of the poet
himself, having resided in Italy throughout his marriage with Elizabeth Barren
Browning from 1846 to 1861.
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