Near this work's end, we hear of a count of known munificence.  The title character's "spot of joy" was a "faint half flush that [died] along her throat," but in an ominous moment the speaker states, "I gave commands; / Then all smiles stopped together."  The speaker mentions his "nine-hundred-years-old name" and points out a bronze sculpture of a 
Near this work's end, we hear of a count of known munificence.  The title character's "spot of joy" was a "faint half flush that [died] along her throat," but in an ominous moment the speaker states, "I gave commands; / Then all smiles stopped together."  The speaker mentions his "nine-hundred-years-old name" and points out a bronze sculpture of a sea-horse being tamed by Neptune.  "A heart...too soon made glad" is considered a failing of the title character, whose likeness is preserved in a painting by Fr?Pandolf.  FTP name this Robert Browning poem in which a Duke discusses a dead wife.
Near this work's end, we hear of a count of known munificence.  
"My Last Duchess"