Another collection followed in 1879, the first series of _Dramatic Idylls_, which contain such masterpieces as "Pheidippides" and "Ivan Ivanovitch." Upon its heels, in 1880, came the second series of _Dramatic Idylls_, including "Muleykeh" and "Clive," possibly the two best stories in poetry, told in the best manner of story-telling.
Then only did the marvellous fountain begin to slacken in quantity, but never in quality.

_Jocoseria_ did not appear till 1883.

It contains among other things a cast-back to his very earliest manner in the lyric of "Never the Time and the Place," which we may call the most light-hearted love-song that was ever written by a man over seventy.

In the next year appeared _Ferishtah's Fancies_, which exhibit some of his shrewdest cosmic sagacity, expressed in some of his quaintest and most characteristic images.

Here perhaps more than anywhere else we see that supreme peculiarity of Browning--his sense of the symbolism of material trifles.