Originaly published under the title "Italy," this work is a companion piece to a poem known as "France" or "Count Gismond." The speaker tells of an "earnest glance" of the titular subject and that not only her husband's presence called "that spot" into her cheeks. Noting that the titular woman had "
Originaly published under the title "Italy," this work is a companion piece to a poem known as "France" or "Count Gismond." The speaker tells of an "earnest glance" of the titular subject and that not only her husband's presence called "that spot" into her cheeks. Noting that the titular woman had "a heart too soon made glad," the speaker also tells of the insult to him of ranking "my gift of a nine-hundred year old name with anybody's gift," and in the end says that he "gave commands, then all smiles stopped together, there she stands. As if alive." Ending with the speaker pointing out a statue of Neptune by Claus of Innsbruck and beginning with a description of the title woman's painting by Fra Pandolf, for ten points, identfiy this poem by Robert Browning about Duke's wife.
Originaly published under the title "Italy," this work is a companion piece to a poem known as "France" or "Count Gismond."