esent, and possessing by
faith an endless and glorious future--this was a life lived on the top
of the wave, and moving with its motion from youth to manhood, from
manhood to old age.

There is no need to mourn for his departure. Nothing feeble has been
done, nothing which lowers the note of his life, nothing we can regret
as less than his native strength. His last poem was like the last look
of the Phoenix to the sun before the sunlight lights the odorous pyre
from which the new-created Bird will spring. And as if the Muse of
Poetry wished to adorn the image of his death, he passed away amid a
world of beauty, and in the midst of a world endeared to him by love.
Italy was his second country. In Florence lies the wife of his heart. In
every city he had friends, friends not only among men and women, but
friends in every ancient wall, in every fold of Apennine and Alp, in
every breaking of the blue sea, in every forest of pines, in every
Church and Palace and Town Hall, in every painting that great art had
wrought, in every storied market place, in every great life which had
adorned, honoured and made romantic Italy; the great mother of Beauty,
at whose breasts have hung and whose milk have sucked all the arts and
all the literatures of modern Europe. Venice saw and mourned his death.
The sea and sky and mountain glory of the city he loved so well
encompassed him with her beauty; and their soft graciousness, their
temperate power of joy and life made his departure peaceful. Strong and
tender in life, his death added a new fairness to his life. Mankind is
fortunate to have so noble a memory, so full and excellent a work to
rest upon and love.

INDEX

OF PASSAGES RELATING TO THE POEMS

A

Andre del Sarto (A. de Musset)

Animal Studies

Arnold, Matthew

Art, Poems dealing with
Romantic Revival in
During the Renaissance

Art, Browning's Poetic,
Compared with that of Tennyson
Compared with that of Morris and Rossetti
In Abt Vogler
In the Grammarian's Funeral
In the Ring and the Book

Art, Browning's Theory of,
In Andrea del Sarto
In Pippa Passes
In Sordello

Aurora Leigh (E.B. Browning)

B

Balaustion's Adventures and Aristophanes' Apology,
Character of the Heroine
Contrast between Balaustion and Pompilia
Balaustion's Prologue
The Story of Alkestis
Representation of Aristophanes

Becket (Tennyson)

Boccaccio

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Poems relating