Robert Browning Flashcards
(10 cards)
Relationships - Christina
“she should never have looked a me / if she meant I should not love her!”
“love me? mark! ‘I love her’ - that’s the phrase!”
“her foot in my heart”
“she drew me to her with her eyes”
Relationships - The Laboratory
“he is with her; and they know that I know”
“brand, burn up, bite into its grace”
“the delicate droplet, my whole fortune’s fee”
“you wish to please me? you’re not of her class!”
Power- My last duchess
“that’s my last duchess painted on the wall”
“I gave commands; / then all smiles stopped together”
“notice Neptune, though taming a sea-horse”
“she looked on, and her looks went everywhere.”
Power - porphyria’s lover
“she shut the cold out and the storm”
“and made her smooth white shoulder bare”
“that moment she was mine, mine, fair,”
“and yet god has not said a word”
Religion/spirituality - The Laboratory
“though eldest of all the elves!”
“devils’ smithy”
“brand, burn up, bite into its grace”
“you may kiss me, old man, on my mouth if you will”
Religion/spirituality - Cristina
“there’s heaven above, and night by night / I look right through its gorgeous roof”
“she drew me to her with her eyes”
“large dark love”
“loved all the more by earth’s male-lands”
Obsessive love - the laboratory
“he is with her; and they know that I know / where they are, what they do”
“which is the poison to poison her, prithee?”
“let death be felt and the proof remain”
“and her breast and arms and her hands”
obsessive love - Cristina
“she should never have looked at me / if she meant that I should not love her”
“was lost here but it rose after”
“that large dark love”
“I might have saved her”
nature - home thoughts from abroad
“oh, to be in England / now that Aprils there”
“that’s the wise thrush; he signs each song twice over”
“the buttercups, the little children’s dower”
“and after April, when may follows”
nature - Johannes agricola in meditation
“how the dark tree, so easily / yields me her boughs and fruitage”
“flowers preach all summer long”
“fool! all that I would have, I have”
“trees and the blue above them”
