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by Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)

Appearances
Language: English 
And so you found that poor room dull,
Dark, hardly to your taste, my dear?
Its features seemed unbeautiful:
But this I know -- 't was there, not here,
You plighted troth to me, the word
Which -- ask that poor room how it heard[.]

And this rich room obtains your praise
Unqualified, -- so bright, so fair,
So all whereat perfection stays?
Ay, but remember -- here, not there,
The other word was spoken! Ask
This rich room how you dropped the mask[.]

Text Authorship:

  • by Robert Browning (1812 - 1889), "Appearances" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Clara Kathleen Rogers (1844 - 1931), "Appearances", op. 32 no. 2, published 1900 [voice and piano], from Browning songs (Second Series), no. 2, Boston : Arthur P. Schmidt and Co. [
     text not verified 
    ]

Researcher for this page: Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2011-07-14
Line count: 12
Word count: 80

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