The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning

INTRODUCTION

NEW YEAR'S DAY AT ASOLO IN THE TREVISAN

_A large mean airy chamber. A girl_, PIPPA, _from the silk-mills, springing out of bed._

DAY! Faster and more fast, O'er night's brim, day boils at last: Boils, pure gold, o'er the cloud-cup's brim Where spurting and suppressed it lay, For not a froth-flake touched the rim Of yonder gap in the ...