Contributions to Magazines

Sonnet.—“Eyes, calm beside thee, (Lady couldst thou know!)” Dated August 17, 1834; signed “Z”. (‘Monthly Repository’, vol. 8 N.S., 1834, p. 712.)

The King.—“A King lived long ago.” Signed “Z”. (‘Monthly Repository’, vol. 9 N.S., 1835, pp. 707, 708.) Reprinted with six fresh lines and revised throughout, in ‘Pippa Passes’ (1841).

Porphyria.—“The rain set early in to-night.” Signed “Z”. (‘Monthly Repository’, vol. 10 N.S., 1836, pp. 43, 44.)

Claret and Tokay. (‘Hood’s Magazine’, vol. 1, 1844, p. 525.) Reprinted in ‘Dramatic Romances and Lyrics’ (1845).

Garden Fancies. I. The Flower’s Name; II. Sibrandus Schafnaburgensis. (‘Hood’s Magazine’, vol. 2, 1844, pp. 45–48.) Reprinted in ‘Dramatic Romances and Lyrics’ (1845).

The Boy and the Angel. (‘Hood’s Magazine’, vol. 2, 1844, pp. 140–142.) Reprinted revised, and with five fresh couplets, in ‘Dramatic Romances and Lyrics’ (1845).

The Flight of the Duchess. (‘Hood’s Magazine’, vol. 3, 1845, pp. 313–318.) Reprinted in ‘Dramatic Romances and Lyrics’ (1845).

Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley. [A fabrication.] With an introductory essay, by Robert Browning. London, 1852, 8vo.

—On the poet, objective and subjective; on the latter’s aim; on Shelley as man and poet. [Being a reprint of the Introductory Essay to “Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley”.] London, 1881, 8vo. Published for the Browning Society.

—A reprint of the Introductory Essay prefixed to the volume of Letters of Shelley. Edited by W. Tyas Harden. London, 1888, 8vo.

Ben Karshook’s Wisdom. (‘The Keepsake’, 1856, p. 16.)

Gold Hair. See note to ‘Dramatis Personae’.

Prospice. See note to ‘Dramatis Personae’.

Under the Cliff. See note to ‘Dramatis Personae’.

A selection from the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. [First series edited by Robert Browning.] 2 series. London, 1866–80, 8vo.

Herve Riel. (‘Cornhill Magazine’, vol. 23, 1871, pp. 257–260.) Reprinted in ‘Pacchiarotto and other Poems’, 1876.

“Oh Love, Love”: the Lyric of Euripides in his Hippolytus. (‘Euripides’. By J. P. Mahaffy, p. 116.) London, 1879, 12mo.

“The Blind Man to the Maiden said.” (‘The Hour will Come, by Wilhelmine von Hillern. From the German by Clara Bell’, vol. 2, p. 174.) London 1879, 8vo. Printed anonymously; quoted with statement of authorship in the ‘Whitehall Review’, March 1, 1883. Reprinted in ‘Browning Society’s Papers’, Pt. 4, p. 410.

Ten new lines to “Touch him ne’er so lightly”. (‘Dramatic Idyls’, 2nd ser., 1880, p. 149.) Lines written in an autograph album, Oct. 14, 1880. (‘Century Magazine’, vol. 25, 1882, pp. 159, 160.) Printed without Mr. Browning’s consent. Reprinted in the ‘Browning Society’s Papers’, Pt. 3, p. 48.

Sonnet on Goldoni (dated “Venice, Nov. 27, 1883”). Written for the Album of the Committee of the Goldoni Monument at Venice, and inserted on the first page. (‘Pall Mall Gazette’, Dec. 8, 1883.) Reprinted in the Browning Society’s Papers, Pt. 5, p. 98*.

Sonnet on Rawdon Brown (dated Nov. 28, 1883). (‘Century Magazine’, vol. 27, 1884, p. 640.) Reprinted in the Browning Society’s Papers, Pt. 5, p. 132**.

Paraphrase from Horace. Four lines, written impromptu for Mr. Felix Moscheles. (‘Pall Mall Gazette’, Dec. 13, 1883, p. 6.) Reprinted in the Browning Society’s Papers, Pt. 5, p. 99***.

Helen’s Tower: Sonnet, dated “April 26, 1870.” Written for the Earl of Dufferin, who built a tower in memory of his mother, Helen, Countess of Gifford, on his estate at Clandeboye. (‘Pall Mall Gazette’, Dec. 28, 1883, p. 2.) Reprinted in ‘Sonnets of this Century’, edited by William Sharp, 1886, and in the Browning Society’s Papers, Pt. 5, p. 97***.

The Founder of the Feast: Sonnet. (Dated “April 5, 1884.”) Inscribed by Mr. Browning in the Album presented to Mr. Arthur Chappell, director of the St. James’s Hall Concerts, etc. (‘The World’, April 16, 1884.) Reprinted in the Browning Society’s Papers, Pt. 7, p. 18***.

“The Names”. Sonnet on Shakespeare. Contributed to the “Shaksperian Show-Book” of the Shaksperian Show, held at the Albert Hall, on May 29–31, 1884. Reprinted in the ‘Pall Mall Gazette’, May 29, and in the Browning Society’s Papers, Pt. 5, p. 105***.

The Divine Order and other Sermons and Addresses, by the late Thomas Jones. Edited by Brynmor Jones. With a short introduction by Robert Browning. London, 1884, 8vo.

Why I am a Liberal: Sonnet. (‘Why I am a Liberal’, edited by Andrew Reid. London, 1885, p. 11.) Reprinted in ‘Sonnets of this Century’, edited by William Sharp, 1886, and in the Browning Society’s Papers, Pt. 8, p. 92***.

Prefatory Note to the ‘Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’, 1889, dated “Dec. 10, 1887.”

To Edward Fitzgerald. “I chanced upon a new book yesterday.” 12 lines, dated “July 8, 1889” (‘Athenaeum’, July 13, 1889, p. 64).