"My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning, 1812 - 1889

My Last Duchess.

FERRARA


That�s my last Duchess painted on the wall,
Looking as if she were alive. I call
That piece a wonder, now: Fr� Pandolf�s hands
Worked busily a day, and there she stands.
Will �t please you sit and look at her? I said
�Fr� Pandolf� by design, for never read
Strangers like you that pictured countenance,
The depth and passion of its earnest glance,
But to myself they