“Pippa Passes” is the title of the first of these little two shilling volumes, which seem to contain just about as much as a man, who lives wisely, might, after a good summer of mingled work, business and pleasure, have to offer to the world, as the honey he could spare from his hive.”
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Pippa Passes
Robert Browning (1812–1889)
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- 1849Pippa PassesAttested
“When you first showed me Pippa passes I did not foresee what pleasant hours I should pass with the writer, only that writer I never see.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [ca. 17 December 1849] (letter dateline)
Describes having spent pleasant hours engaging with Pippa Passes after it was shown to her, a specific reading reference.
When Fuller engaged with this work
1846—
Browning’s Poems.
“Browning’s Poems.”analyzed · quoted · read3 selected passages
“Thou by me And I by thee—this is thy hand in mine— And side by side we sit—all’s true. Thank God! I have spoken—speak thou!”
“A king lived long ago, In the morning of the world, When Earth was nigher Heaven than now: And the King’s locks curled Disparting o’er a forehead full As the milk-white space ’twixt horn and horn Of some sacrificial bull.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Browning’s Poems." New-York Daily Tribune, 1 April 1846.