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Quotation from My Last Duchess by Robert Browning
“This grew; I gave commands; Then all smiles stopped together. There she stands As if alive.”
My Last Duchess, Lines 45-47 (Dramatic Lyrics, 1842 (text from Baker's 1899 edition))
The poem's chilling turn, in which the Duchess's death is implied in a few flat clauses.
Citation: "This grew; I gave commands; Then all smiles stopped together. There she stands As if alive." — Robert Browning, My Last Duchess, Lines 45-47 (Dramatic Lyrics, 1842 (text from Baker's 1899 edition)). (id my-last-duchess-q5)
Portrait: Robert Browning by Herbert Rose Barraud, circa 1888, Herbert Rose Barraud / Adam Cuerden, Public domain.
