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''Home-Thoughts, from Abroad'' is a poem by Robert Browning. It was written in 1845 while Browning was on a visit to northern Italy, and was first published in his ''Dramatic Romances and Lyrics''.〔(Robert Browning's "Home-Thoughts, from Abroad": "Oh to be in England:" Seminar Paper, GRIN Verlag 2008, ISBN 978-3-640-33427-8 )〕 ==Full text== :OH, to be in England :Now that April 's there, :And whoever wakes in England :Sees, some morning, unaware, :That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf :Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, :While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough :In England—now! :And after April, when May follows, :And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows! :Hark, where my blossom'd pear-tree in the hedge :Leans to the field and scatters on the clover :Blossoms and dewdrops—at the bent spray's edge— :That 's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, :Lest you should think he never could recapture :The first fine careless rapture! :And though the fields look rough with hoary dew, :All will be gay when noontide wakes anew :The buttercups, the little children's dower :—Far brighter than this gaudy melon-flower!〔(Robert Browning and Tim Cook, The Poems of Robert Browning, Wordsworth Editions Ltd 1994, ISBN 1-85326-418-0 ) (p.226)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Home Thoughts from Abroad」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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