In the short poems called "dramatic" these studies are numerous, and I group a few of them together according to their motives, leaving out some which I shall hereafter treat of when I come to discuss the women in Browning.

_Evelyn Hope_ has nothing to do with the passion of love.

The physical element of love is entirely excluded by the subject.

It is a beautiful expression of a love purely spiritual, to be realised in its fulness only after death, spirit with spirit, but yet to be kept as the master of daily life, to whose law all thought and action are referred.

The thought is noble, the expression of it simple, fine, and clear.