"Ah! I would tell it soon to thee,
Only—none yet has told it me.
I cannot answer, therefore.
"But dost thou ask what heart I have—
There hesitate I never.
In thine own breast 't is borne, and so
'T is thine in weal, and thine in woe,
For life, for death—thine ever!"
GOLDONI
The following sonnet was written by Browning for the album of the Committee of the Goldoni monument, erected in Venice in 1883.