From the Author to the Publishers. To Messrs. TICKNOR AND FIELDS : I take advantage of the opportunity of the publication in the United States of my Poems, for printing which you have liberally remunerated me, to express my earnest desire that the power of publishing in America this and every subsequent work of mine may rest exclusively with your house. I am, my dear Sirs, Yours faithfully, ROBERT BROWNING. CONTENTS. PAGE JAMES LEE . . . . . . . . . 13 GOLD HAIR: A LEGEND OF Pornic . . . 37 The Worst of it . . . . . . . 47 Dîs ALITER VISUM ; OR, LE BYRON DE Nos Jours RABBI BEN EZRA . . . . . . . . 87 A DEATH IN THE DESERT . . . . . CALIBAN UPON SETEBOS ; OR, NATURAL THEOLOGY IN THE ISLAND . . . . . . . . 133 CONFESSIONS . . . . . . . . 149 MAY AND Death . . . . . . . . 155 PROSPICE . . . . . . . . . 159 Youth AND ART . . . . . . . . 163 A LIKENESS . . . . . . . . . 175 MR. SLUDGE, “THE MEDIUM” . . . . 181 |