22. Ben Karshook’s Wisdom. (Five stanzas of four lines each, signed “Robert Browning,” and dated “Rome, April 27, 1854")—The Keepsake. 1856. (Edited by Miss Power, and published by David Bogue, London.) P. 16.
This poem has never been reprinted by the author in any of his collected volumes, but is to be found in Furnivall’s Browning Bibliography.
23. May and Death.—The Keepsake, 1857, p. 164. Reprinted, with some new readings, in Dramatis Personae (1864).
24. THE POETICAL WORKS of Robert Browning. Third edition. Vol. I., pp. x., 432. Lyrics, Romances, Men and Women. Vol. II., pp. 605. Tragedies and other Plays. Vol. III., pp. 465. Paracelsus, Christmas Eve and Easter Day, Sordello. London: Chapman and Hall, 193 Piccadilly. 1863.
There are no new poems in this edition, but the pieces originally published under the titles of Dramatic Lyrics, Dramatic Lyrics and Romances, and Men and Women, are redistributed. This arrangement has been preserved in all subsequent editions. The table of contents below will thus show the present position of the poems.
Vol. I, Contents—LYRICS:—1. Cavalier Tunes. 2. The Lost Leader. 3. “How they brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix.” 4. Through the Metidja to Abd-el-Kadr. 5. Nationality in Drinks. 6. Garden Fancies.[62] 7. The Laboratory. 8. The Confessional. 9. Cristina. 10. The Lost Mistress. 11. Earth’s Immortalities. 12. Meeting at Night. 13. Parting at Morning. 14. Song. 15. A Woman’s Last Word. 16. Evelyn Hope. 17, Love among the Ruins. 18. A Lovers’ Quarrel. 19. Up at a Villa—Down in the City. 20. A Toccata of Galuppi’s. 21. Old Pictures in Florence, 22. “De Gustibus ——.” 23. Home-Thoughts from Abroad. 24. Home-Thoughts from the Sea. 25. Saul. 26. My Star. 27. By the Fire-side. 28. Any Wife to Any Husband. 29. Two in the Campagna. 30. Misconceptions. 31. A Serenade at the Villa. 32. One Way of Love. 33. Another Way of Love. 34. A Pretty Woman. 35. Respectability. 36. Love in a Life. 37. Life in a Love. 38. In Three Days. 39. In a Year. 40. Women and Roses. 41. Before. 42. After. 43. The Guardian Angel. 44. Memorabilia. 45. Popularity. 46. Master Hugues of Saxe-Gotha.
ROMANCES:—1. Incident of the French Camp. 2. The Patriot. 3. My Last Duchess. 4. Count Gismond. 5. The Boy and the Angel. 6. Instans Tyrannus. 7. Mesmerism. 8. The Glove. 9. Time’s Revenges. 10. The Italian in England. 11. The Englishman in Italy. 12. In a Gondola. 13. Waring. 14. The Twins. 15. A Light Woman. 16. The Last Ride Together. 17. The Pied Piper of Hamelin. 18. The Flight of the Duchess. 19. A Grammarian’s Funeral. 20. Johannes Agricola in Meditation. 21.