Poem-A-Day: Wanting is -- What? by Robert Browning

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Wanting is -- What? by Robert Browning                     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 thro' the blueness, perfect the summer!                 Breathe but one breath                 Rose-beauty above,                 And all that was death                 Grows life, grows love,                      Grows love! Today's poem is in the public domain. Poetry by Browning Selected Poems   Poem-A-Day launched in 2006 and features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. Browse the Poem-A-Day archive.   Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem In Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org. March 17, 2013 Born on May 7, 1812, in Camberwell, England, Robert Browning is the author of Men and Women (1855) and The Ring and the Book (1868). Husband to the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning died on December 12, 1889, in Venice. Related Poems What Things Want by Robert Bly What I'm Looking For by Maureen N. McLane The Untold Want by Walt Whitman

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