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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
APPEARANCES, by ROBERT BROWNING Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And so you found that poor room dull Last Line: This rich room how you dropped the mask! Subject(s): Courtship | |||
AND so you found that poor room dull, Dark, hardly to your taste, my dear? Its features seemed unbeautiful: But this I know -- 't was there, not here, You plighted troth to me, the word Which -- ask that poor room how it heard. And this rich room obtains your praise Unqualified, -- so bright, so fair, So all whereat perfection stays? Ay, but remember -- here, not there, The other word was spoken! -- Ask This rich room how you dropped the mask! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AS YOU WALK OUT ONE MORNING by GLYN MAXWELL TALE OF THE MAYOR'S SON by GLYN MAXWELL THE RIVALS by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON MARJORIE'S WOOING by EMMA LAZARUS THE FORTUNATE SPILL by MARILYN NELSON REQUEST TO LEDA by DYLAN THOMAS CHILDE ROLAND TO THE DARK TOWER CAME' by ROBERT BROWNING |
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