BROWNING, ROBERT. 1812–1889.
Autograph Quotation Signed ("Robert Browning"), 1 p, oblong 8vo, February 4, 1880, being the first four lines of the prologue to his collection Pacchiarotto, and How He Worked in Distemper (published 1876), this section commonly known as "The Wall," creases, else fine, matted with a woodburytype portrait and framed.
In full: "O the old wall here! How I could pass / Life in a long midsummer day, / My feet confined to a plot of grass, / My eyes from a wall not once away!"
In full: "O the old wall here! How I could pass / Life in a long midsummer day, / My feet confined to a plot of grass, / My eyes from a wall not once away!"
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