Had I but plenty of money, money enough and to spare, The house for me, no doubt, were a house in the city-square; Ah, such a life, such a life, as one leads at the window there!
ATTRIBUTION:
Robert Browning (1812–1889), British poet. Up at a Villa—Down in the City (l. 1–3). . .
The Poems; Vol. 1 [Robert Browning]. John Pettigrew, ed. (1981) Penguin.
