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« Reply #1 on: July 12, 2009, 12:44:49 PM »

My favorite Robert Browning poem:

Porphyria's Lover:


THE rain set early in to-night,   
  The sullen wind was soon awake,   
It tore the elm-tops down for spite,   
  And did its worst to vex the lake:   
  I listen'd with heart fit to break.            5
When glided in Porphyria; straight   
  She shut the cold out and the storm,   
And kneel'd and made the cheerless grate   
  Blaze up, and all the cottage warm;   
  Which done, she rose, and from her form     10
Withdrew the dripping cloak and shawl,   
  And laid her soil'd gloves by, untied   
Her hat and let the damp hair fall,   
  And, last, she sat down by my side   
  And call'd me. When no voice replied,     15
She put my arm about her waist,   
  And made her smooth white shoulder bare,   
And all her yellow hair displaced,   
  And, stooping, made my cheek lie there,   
  And spread, o'er all, her yellow hair,     20
Murmuring how she loved me—she   
  Too weak, for all her heart's endeavour,   
To set its struggling passion free   
  From pride, and vainer ties dissever,   
  And give herself to me for ever.     25
But passion sometimes would prevail,   
  Nor could to-night's Con feast restrain   
A sudden thought of one so pale   
  For love of her, and all in vain:   
  So, she was come through wind and rain.     30
Be sure I look'd up at her eyes   
  Happy and proud; at last I knew   
Porphyria worshipp'd me; surprise   
  Made my heart swell, and still it grew   
  While I debated what to do.     35
That moment she was mine, mine, fair,   
  Perfectly pure and good: I found   
A thing to do, and all her hair   
  In one long yellow string I wound   
  Three times her little throat around,     40
And strangled her. No pain felt she;   
  I am quite sure she felt no pain.   
As a shut bud that holds a bee,   
  I warily oped her lids: again   
  Laugh'd the blue eyes without a stain.     45
And I untighten'd next the tress   
  About her neck; her cheek once more   
Blush'd bright beneath my burning kiss:   
  I propp'd her head up as before,   
  Only, this time my shoulder bore     50
Her head, which droops upon it still:   
  The smiling rosy little head,   
So glad it has its utmost will,   
  That all it scorn'd at once is fled,   
  And I, its love, am gain'd instead!     55
Porphyria's love: she guess'd not how   
  Her darling one wish would be heard.   
And thus we sit together now,   
  And all night long we have not stirr'd,   
  And yet God has not said a word!
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« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2009, 12:49:26 PM »

And he wrote the original Dark Tower. I always wonder if King's last two books sucked because he forgot to tell his wife to read the fucking poem before she wrote it.



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