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Nay, Love, you did give all I asked, I think— More than I merit, yes, by many times. But had you—oh, with the same perfect brow, And perfect eyes, and more than perfect mouth, And the low voice my soul hears, as a bird The fowler’s pipe and follows to the snare— Had you, with these the same, but brought a mind! Some women do so. Had the mouth there urged “God and the glory! never care for gain.” I might have done it for you.
Nay, Love, you did give all I asked, I think— More than I merit, yes, by many times. But had you—oh, with the same perfect brow, And perfect eyes, and more than perfect mouth, And the low voice my soul hears, as a bird The fowler’s pipe and follows to the snare— Had you, with these the same, but brought a mind! Some women do so. Had the mouth there urged “God and the glory! never care for gain.” I might have done it for you.
Approximate author period: c. 1850 AD · industrial
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- Robert Browning
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- Approximate author period: c. 1850 AD · industrial
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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 242 · printed citation: R. Browning (Andrea del Sarto). · compiler notes excluded
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