O woman-country! wooed not wed,
Loved all the more by earth's male-lands,
Laid to their hearts instead.


By the Fireside, vi. - Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Robert Browning Quotes

O woman-country! wooed not wed, Loved all the more by earth's male-lands, Laid to their hearts instead.

O woman-country! wooed not wed, Loved all the more by earth's male-lands, Laid to their hearts instead.

O woman-country! wooed not wed, Loved all the more by earth's male-lands, Laid to their hearts instead.

O woman-country! wooed not wed, Loved all the more by earth's male-lands, Laid to their hearts instead.