Porphyria's Lover
Porphyria's Lover
by Robert Browning

Porphyria's Lover Quotes

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Love Quotes

Murmuring how she loved me (21)

Sin Quotes

And laid her soiled gloves by […] (12)

Power Quotes

It tore the elm-tops down for spite (3)

Passivity Quotes

I listened with heart fit to break. (5)

Society and Class Quotes

And kneeled and made the cheerless grate Blaze up, and all the cottage warm; (8-9)