Sunday, May 13, 2001

A Pretty Woman Comments

Rating: 2.9

That fawn-skin-dappled hair of hers,
And the blue eye
Dear and dewy,
And that infantine fresh air of hers!
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Robert Browning
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Mahtab Bangalee 03 February 2020

All's our own, to make the most of, Sweet- - Sing and say for, Watch and pray for, Keep a secret or go boast of, Sweet! sweetly loving poem penned; great jobd

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Me Poet Yeps Poet 06 October 2018

Then how grace a rose? I know a way! Leave it, rather. Must you gather? Smell, kiss, wear it- -at last, throw away! The reality of love and life we come like buds floer fragrant smell than the flavour is immense when the rose is in her hair later in library books will it lay till some one comes and finds it with a signature yours in paper mache then memories of yours would a secret remain in books when one opens who was she the poets lover maybe sorry my apology Robert Browning

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Seema Jayaraman 28 September 2015

One of my favourite poets.. Beauty and Roses go hand in hand... best lines I liked Then how grace a rose? I know a way! Leave it, rather. Must you gather? . Thanks

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Captain Herbert Poetry 26 April 2014

Great words figuratively. Great done

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James Mclain 22 April 2013

To hear an echo from the past - forever blasts. When cherry blosoms, never picked. Forever seem to last.....iip

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Besa Dede 22 April 2012

Beautiful poem, beautiful description

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Juan Olivarez 22 April 2011

I've always had some contempt for this work it seems so beneath the great works of Browning, so average if you will.

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Herman Chiu 22 April 2010

Just read this on a sunny day. Read this of a good woman.

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Ramesh T A 22 April 2010

After the romantic poets like Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley and John Keats, the poet remains fresh in mind is Robert Browning only! This poem is just one piece to say his name but other poems of his are better than this! It is just like 'heard melodies are sweet but unheard melodies are sweeter! '

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Kevin Straw 22 April 2009

Browning's prosodic affectations have always annoyed me. He makes it difficult to read his work.

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Michael Harmon 22 April 2009

Browning, along with Tennyson and Matthew Arnold, is considered one of the great Victorian-era poets of the English language. I took a class on this subject, and though I did not read all of his dramatic monologues (or other works) , I have a hunch this particular piece would not have been selected to be studied. I couldn't finish it either. Where's My Last Duchess?

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Joseph Poewhit 22 April 2009

Speaks well of an earlier era of time. Where a woman was praised and placed on a pedestal. Not as today, a cheap object for a fast fling. It is more respect for a woman. Though the same inner lusts existed, they had a dog leash attached to them. How moral decay, has come upon people today, for a few gold coins. Church was the center of life, not the BIG MOM TV.

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Emily Gnitt 22 April 2008

it is a good detailed poem but i lost interest in it because it was too long and well i would give this a 7.5/10

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Mark Nwagwu 22 April 2008

a prettywoman - elicited all sorts of thoughts in me, some of which I could not hold on to. Al last managed to hang on to the beginning and the end and a few in-betweens - infantine fresh air of hers men can only keep what they make you (for which you are not responsible) all the face composed of flowers so we leave the swee face fondly there just perfection, whence rejection precious meatls ape petals Tells me I'm mere metal aping her petal she is truly comething else - prety woman must you gather -no, no, not this pretty woman; gave this 7

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Stacy Bea 22 April 2008

this is good poem but the meaning is unclear

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Stuart Smith 22 April 2007

Cant say that I like it. I would not say I do simply beacause it is Browning.

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