There are others, like _Abt Vogler_, in which the style is extraordinarily noble, clear, and uplifted; and there are long passages in the more important poems, like _Paracelsus_, where the joy and glory of the thought and passion of Browning inform the verse with dignity, and make its march stately with solemn and beautiful music.

Where the style and melody are thus fine the composition is also good.

The parts, in their variety, belong to one another and to the unity of the whole.

Style, melody and composition are always in the closest relation.

And this nobleness of composition, style, and melody is chiefly found in those poems of his which have to do with the great matter of poetry--the representation of the universal and simple passions of human nature with their attendant and necessary thoughts.