My Last Duchess - Robert Browning

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looking as if
she were alive
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the depth and passion
of its earnest glance
2 of 15
since none puts by the
curtain I have drawn for you, but I
3 of 15
half-flush that dies
along her throat
4 of 15
she had a heart- how shall
I say ? - too soon made glad
5 of 15
the dropping of the
daylight in the West - threatened by nature
6 of 15
she thanked
men - good! - losing control of interlocuter
7 of 15
but thanked somehow -
I know not how - has to justify himself
8 of 15
my gift of a nine-hundred-
years-old name
9 of 15
and made
excuse - is aware of her actions
10 of 15
she smiled
no doubt - what he thinks is wrong
11 of 15
I gave commands then
all smiles stopped together
12 of 15
though his daughter's self, as I
avowed at starting, is my object - possession
13 of 15
taming a
seahorse
14 of 15
which Claus of Innsbruck cast
in bronze for me - bragging, egoism
15 of 15

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the depth and passion

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of its earnest glance

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since none puts by the

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Card 4

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half-flush that dies

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Card 5

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she had a heart- how shall

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