SIGHED Rawdon Brown: "Yes, I'm departing, Toni! I needs must, just this once before I die, Revisit England: Anglus Brown am I, Although my heart's Venetian. Yes, old crony -- Venice and London -- London's 'Death the bony' Compared with Life -- that's Venice! What a sky, A sea, this morning! One last look! Good-by, Ca Pesaro! No, lion -- I'm a coney To weep! I'm dazzled; 't is that sun I view Rippling the ... the ... Cospetto, Toni! Down With carpet-bag, and off with valise-straps! Bella Venezia, non ti lascio piu!" Nor did Brown ever leave her: well, perhaps Browning, next week, may find himself quite Brown! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...STANZAS; HOOD'S LAST POEM by THOMAS HOOD THE WHITE COMRADE (AFTER W.H. LEATHAM'S 'THE COMRADE IN WHIRE') by ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER THE GOAT PATHS by JAMES STEPHENS WINTERTIME by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON THE MEETING by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER SHEEPBELLS by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |