The lost mistress
Robert Browning was born on 7 May 1812 in London, England, and he died on 12 December 1889 in Venice, Kingdom of Italy, at the age of 77.
A poet and playwright, Browning wrote dramatic monologues that put him in high regard among the Victorian poets. He was noted for irony, characterization, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings, and challenging vocabulary and syntax.
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All’s over, then: does truth sound bitter As one at first believes? Hark, ’tis the sparrows’ good-night twitter About your cottage eaves!
And the leaf-buds on the vine are woolly, I noticed that, today; One day more bursts them open fully — You know the red turns grey.
Tomorrow we meet the same then, dearest? May I take your hand in mine? Mere friends are we, — well, friends the merest Keep much that I resign:
For each glance of the eye so bright and black, Though I keep with heart’s endeavor, — Your voice, when you wish the snowdrops back, Though it stay in my soul for ever! —
Yet I will but say what mere friends say, Or only a thought stronger; I will hold your hand but as long as all may, Or so very little longer!