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Robert Browning
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Robert Browning was born on May 7, 1812, in Camberwell, England. His...
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Wanting is — What?

 
by Robert Browning

                Wanting is — what?
                Summer redundant,
                Blueness abundant,
                — Where is the blot?
Beamy the world, yet a blank all the same,
— Framework which waits for a picture to frame:
What of the leafage, what of the flower?
Roses embowering with naught they embower!
Come then, complete incompletion, O comer,
Pant thro' the blueness, perfect the summer!
                Breathe but one breath
                Rose-beauty above,
                And all that was death
                Grows life, grows love,
                     Grows love!







This poem appeared in Poem-A-Day on March 17, 2013. Browse the Poem-A-Day archive.
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