Religion
Wanting Is--What?
From Jocoseria (1883)
Religion
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 through the blueness, perfect the summer!
Breathe but one breath
Rose-beauty above,
And all that was death
Grows life, grows love,
Grows love!
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MLA
Browning, Robert. “Wanting Is--What?” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/browning_r/156/.
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Browning, Robert. “Wanting Is--What?” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/browning_r/156/.
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