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Excerpt from Illustrations to Browning's Poems, Vol. 1: 1. The Coronation of the Virgin; 2. Andrea Del Sarto and His Wife; 3. The Angel and Child I cannot forbear quoting from the poem again, though I make my paper long, so as to place side by side the two accounts of this charming episode. I've been shut three weeks within my mew, A painting for the great man, saints and saints And saints again. I could not paint all night Ouf l I leaned out of window for fresh air. There came a hurry of feet, and little feet, A sweep of lute strings, laughs, and whifts of song, Flower o' the broom, Take away love, and our Earth is a tomb! Flower o' the quince, I let Lisa go, and what goods in life since 7 Flower o' the thyme, - and so on. Round they went. Scarce had they turned the corner, when a titter, Like the skipping of rabbits by moonlight, -three slim shapes And a face that looked up. Zooks, sir, flesh and blood, That's all I'm made of Into shreds it went, Curtain and counterpane and coverlet, All the bed furniture - a dozen knots, There was a ladder! Down I let myself, Hands and feet, scrambling somehow, and so dropped, And after them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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