class="tdleft">Noon: Phene

51   IV. Evening; Night: The Ending of the Day 67 III. Mildred Tresham 81 IV. Balaustion 93 V. Pompilia 122   PART II THE GREAT LADY "My Last Duchess," and "The Flight of the Duchess" 165   PART III THE LOVER I. Lovers Meeting 199 II. Trouble of Love: The Woman's   I. The Lady in "The Glove" 215   II. Dîs Aliter Visum; or, Le Byron De Nos Jours 224   III. The Laboratory 233   IV. In a Year 237   PART IV THE WIFE I. A Woman's Last Word 245 II. James Lee's Wife 250   I. She Speaks at the Window 254   II. By the Fireside 256   III. In the Doorway 257   IV. Along the Beach 258   V. On the Cliff 261   VI. Reading a Book, under the Cliff 262   VII. Among the Rocks 266   VIII. Beside the Drawing-board 268   IX. On Deck 271   PART V TROUBLE OF LOVE: THE MAN'S I. The Woman Unwon 277 II. The Woman Won 304

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PART I

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BROWNING'S HEROINES

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INTRODUCTORY

Browning's power of embodying in rhythm the full beauty of girlhood is unequalled by any other English poet. Heine alone is his peer in this; but even