Friday, March 21, 2014
Robert Browning - Heap cassia, sandal-buds and stripes
Heap cassia, sandal-buds and stripes
Of labdanum, and aloe-balls,
Smeared with dull nard an Indian wipes
From out her hair: such balsam falls
Down sea-side mountain pedestals,
From tree-tops where tired winds are fain,
Spent with the vast and howling main,
To treasure half their island-gain.
And strew faint sweetness from some old
Egyptian's fine worm-eaten shroud
Which breaks to dust when once unrolled;
Or shredded perfume, like a cloud
From closet long to quiet vowed,
With mothed and dropping arras hung,
Mouldering her lute and books among,
As when a queen, long dead, was young.
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This poem also known as song from Parcelus had many different translation as the words in it are so broad and purposeless. The most note able meaning can be taken as the weather being used to covey emotions in order to empathize human feelings with the natural happening around us which display yet again the literary genius of Browning within his assiduous style of writing.
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