Men and women Author's ed - poems Author:Robert Browning Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A WOMAN'S LAST WORD. Let 'a contend no more, Love, Strive nor weep ,- All be as before, Love, Only sleep ! What so wild as words are ? I and ... more »thou In debate, as birds are, Hawk on bough! See the creature stalking While we speak Hush and hide the talking, Cheek on cheek! What so false as truth is, False to thee ? Where the serpent's tooth is, Shun the tree Where the apple reddens Never pry Lest we lose our Edens. Eve and I! Be a god and hold me With a charm Be a man and fold me With thine arm! Teach me, only teach, Love ! As I ought I will speak thy speech, Love, Think thy thought Meet, if thou require it, Both demands, Laying flesh and spirit In thy hands ! That shall be to-morrow Not to-night: I must bury sorrow Out of sight. Must a little weep, Love, Foolish me! And so fall asleep, Love, Loved by thee. FRA LIPPO LIPPI. I Am poor brother Lippo, by your leave! You need not clap your torches to my face. Zooks, what's to blame ? you think you see a monk ! What, it's past midnight, and you go the rounds, And here you catch me at an alley's end Where sportive ladies leave their doors ajar. The Carmine's my cloister : hunt it up, Do, harry out, if you must show your zeal, Whatever rat, there, haps on his wrong hole, And nip each softling of a wee white mouse, Weke, weke, that's crept to keep him company! Aha, you know your betters ? Then, you 'll take Your hand away that's fiddling on my throat, And please to know me likewise. Who am I ? Why, one, sir, who is lodging with a friend Three streets off he 's a certain . . . how d'ye call ? Master a ... Cosimo of the Medici, In the house that caps the corner. Boh ! you we...« less