Dinesh's photos with the keyword: Robert Browning

Pippa's Song is a short lyric poem. Its story centers on a fourteen-year-old girl, Pippa, who works in a silk mill. She was an orphan girl. She was abused by her employer and by society. (Source WWW) {In High School my English teacher, while teaching us this poem, told Pippa had to work 12 hours a day, 364 days in a year. She had one day off in the whole year, and she sings this song, early morning, on the day when she was off }

The hill-side 's dew-pearl'd; The lark 's on the wing; The snail 's on the thorn; Excerpt: Pippa's Song - Robert Browning Pippa's Song by Robert Browning The year's at the spring, And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearl'd; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn; God's in His heaven, All's right with the world!