Living
The Re-echo Club: as by Robert Browning (Lady of Niger)
From The Re-echo Club
(The Tiger speaks.)
I said, "Then, Dearest, since 'tis so,
Since now at length your fate you know,
Since nothing all your smile avails,
Since all your life seems meant for fails,
Henceforth you ride inside."
Who knows what's best? Ah, who can tell?
I loved the lady. Therefore,--well,--
I shuddered. Yet it had to be.
And so together, I and she
Ride, ride, forever ride.
Codex Note
A parody by Carolyn Wells, written in the manner of Robert Browning as a contribution to the imagined Re-Echo Club (Lady of Niger). It is headed "The Last Ride Together", after Browning's poem.
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MLA
Wells, Carolyn. “The Re-echo Club: as by Robert Browning (Lady of Niger).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wells_c/280/.
Chicago
Wells, Carolyn. “The Re-echo Club: as by Robert Browning (Lady of Niger).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wells_c/280/.
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