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TO BROWNING by MARIANNE MOORE

Poet Analysis

First Line: IF YELLOW BETOKENS INFIDELITY
Last Line: EFFRONTERY.
Subject(s): BROWNING, ROBERT (1812-1889); GARDENS & GARDENING; POETRY & POETS;

IF yellow betokens infidelity,
I am an infidel.
I could not bear a yellow rose ill will
Because books said that yellow boded ill,
White promised well;

However, your particular possession—
The sense of privacy
In what you did—deflects from your estate
Offending eyes, and will not tolerate
Effrontery.



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