Home-Thoughts, from Abroad by Robert Browning
The speaker longs to be in England in April, picturing new leaves and a chaffinch singing in an orchard. Looking ahead to May, the speaker imagines nesting birds, pear blossoms, a thrush repeating its song, and buttercups brighter than the nearby gaudy melon-flower.
By Robert Browning · Genre: Lyric Poetry, Nature Poetry · 216 words
First lines
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 brush-wood sheaf / Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, / While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough / In England -- now!
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Robert Browning
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Lyric Poetry, Nature Poetry
- Length: 216 words
- Structure: 1 section, 2 paragraphs
- Reading fit: Standard (8th-9th Grade)
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Genres
- Lyric Poetry — The speaker expresses a personal longing to be in England through two rhymed stanzas.
- Nature Poetry — Emerging leaves, nesting birds, pear blossoms and buttercups give concrete shape to the imagined English spring.
Tags
spring · England · homesickness · birdsong · buttercups