Love Among the Ruins by Robert Browning
A speaker contrasts quiet, sheep-grazed pastures with accounts of the splendid capital that once stood there. A girl waits in its remaining turret; he anticipates their embrace and declares love better than the vanished city's wealth, armies, and triumphs.
By Robert Browning · Genre: Love Poetry, Lyric Poetry · 782 words
First lines
Where the quiet-colored end of evening smiles / Miles and miles / On the solitary pastures where our sheep / Half-asleep / Tinkle homeward through the twilight, stray or stop / As they crop -- / Was the site once of a city great and gay, / (So they say) / Of our country's very capital, its prince / Ages since / Held his court in, gathered councils, wielding far / Peace or war.
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Robert Browning
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Love Poetry, Lyric Poetry
- Length: 782 words
- Structure: 1 section, 7 paragraphs
- Reading fit: Standard (8th-9th Grade)
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Genres
- Love Poetry — The speaker anticipates an embrace with the girl waiting in the turret and places their love above the former city's triumphs.
- Lyric Poetry — Alternating long and short rhyming lines carry a first-person speaker's descriptions, anticipation, and concluding declaration.
Tags
love · ruined cities · anticipated reunion · pastoral landscape · military glory