Again, the Cousin's whistle!"
This poem's speaker complains about those of turbulent temperament by saying: "The sudden blood of these men! at a word Â— / Praise them, it boils, or blame them, it boils too." The speaker of this poem recalls "kingly days" when "Too live the life grew, golden and not grey," and repeatedly expresses a desire to retreat to "sober pleasant Fiesole." This poem praises the "...perfect brow / And perfect eyes, and more than perfect mouth" of a woman, but laments that she cannot inspire beyond her beauty, saying "Had you, with these the same, but brought a (*) mind!" This poem's narrator meditates on the success of rivals who access "a heaven that's shut to [him]," and in whom "there burns a truer light." This poem's final line of "Again, the Cousin's whistle!" references the ongoing infidelity of its speaker's wife, Lucrezia. For 10 points, name this Robert Browning poem about an Italian painter of "faultless" but soulless works.
This poem's speaker complains about those of turbulent temperament by saying: "The sudden blood of these men!
"Andrea del Sarto"