Robert Browning Poems

That's my last Duchess painted on the wall,
Looking as if she were alive. I call
That piece a wonder, now: Fr Pandolf's hands
Worked busily a day, and there she stands
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Escape me?
Never---
Beloved!
While I am I, and you are you,
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Let's contend no more, Love,
Strive nor weep:
All be as before, Love,
---Only sleep!
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That fawn-skin-dappled hair of hers,
And the blue eye
Dear and dewy,
And that infantine fresh air of hers!
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Take the cloak from his face, and at first
Let the corpse do its worst!

How he lies in his rights of a man!
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The rain set early in to-night,
The sullen wind was soon awake,
It tore the elm-tops down for spite,
And did its worst to vex the lake:
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Oh, what a dawn of day!
How the March sun feels like May!
All is blue again
After last night's rain,
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My first thought was, he lied in every word,
That hoary cripple, with malicious eye
Askance to watch the working of his lie
On mine, and mouth scarce able to afford
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It was roses, roses, all the way,
With myrtle mixed in my path like mad:
The house-roofs seemed to heave and sway,
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So far as our story approaches the end,
Which do you pity the most of us three?---
My friend, or the mistress of my friend
With her wanton eyes, or me?
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