My Last Duchess

• "That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, looking as if she were alive"
• "the depth and passion of its earnest glance"
• "curtain I have drawn for you"
• "'twas not her husband's presence only, called that spot of joy into the Duchess' cheek"
• "dies along her throat"
• "my favour at her breast, the dropping of the daylight in the West"
• "the white mule she rode with round the terrace"
• "This grew; I gave commands; then all smiles stopped together"
• Compare to: Ozymandias, Kamikaze