1" Crossing the Bar was written in my father's eighty-first year, on a day in October.... "I said, That is the crown of your life's work ;' he answered, 'It came in a moment.' He explained the 'Pilot' as That Divine and Unseen Who is always guiding us.' "A few days before his death he said to me: Mind you put Crossing the Bar at the end of all editions of my poems.' (Life of Tennyson, II., 367.) ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING LIST OF REFERENCES EDITIONS * POETICAL WORKS, 6 volumes, edited by C. Porter and H. Clarke, Crowell, 1900. POETICAL WORKS, 6 volumes, Scribner's, 1890.POETICAL WORKS, 1 volume, edited by H. W. Preston, 1900 (Cambridge Edition). *POETICAL WORKS, 1 volume, edited by F. G. Kenyon, 1897 (Globe Edition). - POETICAL WORKS, 1 volume (Oxford Edition). LETTERS, edited by F. G. Kenyon, 2 volumes, 1897. — LETTERS of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, 2 volumes, 1899. BIOGRAPHY *KENYON (F. G.), Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, edited with biographical additions. - HORNE (R. H.), Life and Letters of Mrs. Browning. INGRAM (J. H.), Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Famous Women Series). See also L'Estrange's Life of M. R. Mitford, and The Friendships of M. R. Mitford; The Letters of M. R. Mitford; Macpherson's Memoirs of Anna Jameson; and Forster's Life of Landor. REMINISCENCES AND EARLY CRITICISM HORNE (R. H.), A New Spirit of the Age, 1844. — RITCHIE (Anne Thackeray), Records of Tennyson, Ruskin, Browning, 1892. - * MITFORD (M. R.), Recollections of a Literary Life. - COLERIDGE (Sara), Memoirs and Letters, Vol. I, Chap. 12 (letter of 1844 to John Kenyon); Vol. II, Chap. 12 (letter of 1851 to Ellis Yarnall). BAYNE (Peter), Essays in Biography and Criticism (1st Series): Mrs. Barrett Browning. - ROSCOE (W. C.), Poems and Essays, Vol. II, 1860.-OSSOLI (Margaret Fuller), Art, Literature and the Drama. HAWTHORNE, Italian Note-books. HILLARD (G. S.), Six Months in Italy. * W. W. STORY and his Friends, edited by Henry James, 1903. LATER CRITICISM BENSON (A. C.), Essays: Elizabeth Barrett Browning. - CHESTERTON (G. K.), Twelve Types, 1902. — CUNLIFFE (J. W.), Elizabeth Barrett's Influence on Browning's Poetry; in the Publications of the Modern Language Association, June, 1908.-DARMESTETER (Mary J.), Ménage de Poètes; in the Revue de Paris, Vol. V, p. 295 and p. 788. -* GOSSE (E.), Critical Kit-Kats: The Sonnets from the Portuguese, etc., 1896.LUBBOCK (Percy), Elizabeth Barrett Browning in her Letters, 1906.MONTEGUT (Emile), Ecrivains modernes de l'Angleterre, Vol. II, 1889.* STEDMAN (E. C.), Victorian Poets, 1875, 1887.-TEXTE (Joseph), Études de littérature européenne, 1898.- WHITING (Lilian), A Study of E. B. Browning, 1899. A melancholy music,-why advert To live on still in love, and yet in vain,To bless thee, yet renounce thee to thy face. XII INDEED this very love which is my boast, And which, when rising up from breast to brow, Doth crown me with a ruby large enow To draw men's eyes and prove the inner cost, This love even, all my worth, to the uttermost, I should not love withal, unless that thou Hadst set me an example, shown me how, When first thine earnest eyes with mine were crossed, And love called love. And thus, I cannot speak Of love even, as a good thing of my own: Thy soul hath snatched up mine all faint and weak, And placed it by thee on a golden throne, And that I love (O soul, we must be meek!) Is by thee only, whom I love alone. |