She chanced to call upon me one afternoon just as I was taking from its wrappings an édition de luxe of "Pippa Passes."

Like the Great Stone Face in Hawthorne's story or like little Pippa in Browning's poem, they awaken the better nature of those about them.

S.T. Coleridge MY LAST DUCHESS Robert Browning MY STAR Robert Browning PIPPA PASSES, Extracts from Robert Browning I. Day.

* EXTRACTS FROM PIPPA PASSES.

Indeed, all his poems may be divided into three classes,pure dramas, like Strafford and A Blot in the 'Scutcheon; dramatic narratives, like Pippa Passes, which are dramatic in form, but were not meant to be acted; and dramatic lyrics, like The Last Ride Together, which are short poems expressing some strong personal emotion, or describing some dramatic episode in human life, and in which the hero himself generally tells the story.

Thus, the first number of this wonderful series, published in 1841, contains Pippa Passes, which is, on the whole, the most perfect of his longer poems; and another number contains A Blot in the 'Scutcheon, which is the most readable of his dramas.

[Pippa Passes] Among Browning's longer poems there are two, at least, that well deserve our study.

Pippa Passes, aside from its rare poetical qualities, is a study of unconscious influence.

Pippa is a little silk weaver, who goes out in the morning to enjoy her one holiday of the whole year.

But Pippa knows nothing of this.

Pippa Passes Plain Man's Pathway to Heaven Plutarch's Lives Poems by Two Brothers Poetaster, The Polyolbion (pol-[)i]-ol'b[)i]-on) Pope, Alexander; life; works Porter, Jane Practice of Piety Praeterita (pr[=e]-ter'[)i]-tä)

In 1845, after Browning had published some ten volumes of verse, among which were Paracelsus (1835), Pippa Passes (1841), and Dramatic Lyrics (1842), he met Miss Elizabeth Barrett Barrett (1806-1861), whose poetic reputation was then greater than his own.

Browning's dramatic power is well exhibited in poems like In a Balcony or Pippa Passes, in which powerful individual scenes are presented without all the accompanying details of a complete drama.

" Pippa Passes is one of Browning's most artistic presentations of such dramatic scenes.

The little silk weaver, Pippa, rises on the morning of her one holiday in the year, with the intention of enjoying in fancy the pleasures "of the Happiest Four in our Asolo," not knowing, in her innocence, of their misery and guilt.

As Sebald begins to reflect on the murder, there comes this song of Pippa's, like the knocking at the gate in Macbeth, to loose the floodgates of remorse: [Illustration: FACSIMILE OF MS.

FROM PIPPA PASSES.]

Man, Bird, and God; Pippa's Song; Prospice; Rabbi Ben Ezra.

Pippa Passes is a poem on exactly the same scheme as the Old Cumberland Beggar, but in treatment no two things could be further apart.

The intervention of Pippa is dramatic, and though her song is in the same key as the wordless message of Wordsworth's beggar she is a world apart from him, because she is something not out of natural history, but out of life.

A memorial to the poet has also been placed in the church inscribed with a line from Pippa Passes: "All service ranks the same with God.

During the dark hour of trial through which Italy has been passing, my thoughts have often strayed to Asolo in the Trevisan, the scene of Pippa Passes, by the late ROBERT BROWNING (whom I knew well).

"Morning's at seven!" replies Pippa.

He wrote many fine dramatic poems, like Pippa Passes, Colombe's Birthday, and In a Balcony; and at least two good acting plays, Luria and A Blot in the Scutcheon.

This artist has painted principally figure subjects, among which are "Cedric's Daughter," "Thoughts of Youth are Long Thoughts," "Dream of the Past," "Pippa Passes," "Dorothy's Bridesmaid's Dress," etc., etc.