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b"R Browning read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\\nhttp://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\\n\\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\\n\\n---------------------------------------\\n\\nHome Thoughts, from Abroad\\nby Robert Browning (1812 \\u2013 1889)\\n\\nO, to be in England\\nNow that April 's there,\\nAnd whoever wakes in England\\nSees, some morning, unaware,\\nThat the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf\\nRound the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf,\\nWhile the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough\\nIn England\\u2014now!\\n\\nAnd after April, when May follows,\\nAnd the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows!\\nHark, where my blossom'd pear-tree in the hedge\\nLeans to the field and scatters on the clover\\nBlossoms and dewdrops\\u2014at the bent spray's edge\\u2014\\nThat 's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over,\\nLest you should think he never could recapture\\nThe first fine careless rapture!\\nAnd though the fields look rough with hoary dew,\\nAll will be gay when noontide wakes anew\\nThe buttercups, the little children's dower\\n\\u2014Far brighter than this gaudy melon-flower!\\n\\n\\nFirst aired: 1 April 2008\\n\\nFor hundreds more poetry readings, visit the Classic Poetry Aloud index.\\n\\nReading \\xa9 Classic Poetry Aloud 2009"