FOOTNOTES:
[251:1] The poems were first called James Lee only.
[254:1] Life, Mrs. Orr, p. 266.
[257:1] "The little church, a field, a few houses, and the sea . . . Such a soft sea, and such a mournful wind!"—Life, p. 266.
[258:1] Life, p. 266.
[262:1] These lines were published by Browning, separately, in 1836, when he was twenty-six. James Lee's Wife was published in 1864.
[263:1] Nettleship well says: "The difference between the first and second parts of this section is that, while the plaint of the wind was enough to make Browning write in 1836, he must have the plaint of a soul in 1863. . . . And yet, something is lost."