A Woman's Last Word by Robert Browning
A woman asks her lover to stop arguing and hold her. She promises to adopt his speech and thoughts and place flesh and spirit in his hands, but postpones this until tomorrow, saying she must first weep and sleep.
By Robert Browning · Genre: Dramatic Monologue, Love Poetry, Lyric Poetry · 291 words
First lines
Let's contend no more, Love, / Strive nor weep: / All be as before, Love, / -- Only sleep!
What so wild as words are? / I and thou / In debate, as birds are, / Hawk on bough!
See the creature stalking / While we speak! / Hush and hide the talking, / Cheek on cheek!
What so false as truth is, / False to thee? / Where the serpent's tooth is / Shun the tree --
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Robert Browning
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Dramatic Monologue, Love Poetry, Lyric Poetry
- Length: 291 words
- Structure: 1 section, 10 paragraphs
- Reading fit: Very Easy (5th Grade or below)
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Genres
- Dramatic Monologue — A woman addresses a lover whose replies remain unheard, asking him to stop debating and describing what she will yield to him.
- Love Poetry — The speaker asks for an embrace and wishes to fall asleep loved by the person she addresses.
- Lyric Poetry — Ten short rhymed stanzas express the speaker's immediate pleas, promises, and sorrow.
Tags
lovers' quarrels · reconciliation · submission · embraces · tears · sleep