A Selection of Poems : 1835-1864 (Paperback)

Preface; Introduction; 1. Paracelsus. Heap cassia, sandal-buds, and stripes; 2. Pippa passes. The year's at the spring; Part I. Dramatic Lyrics: 3. Cavalier tunes; 4. The lost leader; 5. 'How they brought the good news from Ghent to Aix'; 6. Garden fancies; 7. Soliloquy of the Spanish cloister; 8. The lost mistress; 9. Evelyn Hope; 10. Home-thoughts, from abroad; 11. Home-thoughts, from the sea; 12. Saul; 13. By the fire-side; 14. The guardian angel; Part II. Dramatic Romances: 15. Incident of the French camp; 16. My last duchess; 17. The last ride together; 18. The Pied Piper of Hamelin: a child's story; 19. A grammarian's funeral; 20. Holy-cross day; 21. The statue and the bust; 22. 'Childe Roland to the dark tower came'; Part III. Men and Women: 23. An epistle containing the strange medical experience of Karshish, the Arab physician; 24. Fra Lippo Lippi; 25. Andrea del Sarto (called 'the faultless painter'); 26. The bishop orders his tomb at Saint Praxed's church; 27. Bishop Blougram's apology; 28. One word more; Part IV. Dramatis Personae: 29. Abt Vogler; 30. Rabbi Ben Ezra; 31. Caliban upon Setebos; or, natural theology in the island; 32. Confessions; 33. Prospice; 34. A face; 35. The ring and the book. O lyric love, half-angel and half-bird; Notes.