<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (February 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (February 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> Pippa Passes is a verse drama by Robert Browning . It was published in 1841 as the first volume of his Bells and Pomegranates series, in a very inexpensive two - column edition for sixpence and next republished in Poems in 1848, which received much more critical attention . It was dedicated to Thomas Noon Talfourd, who had recently attained fame as the author of the tragedy Ion . </P> <P> The author described the work as "the first of a series of dramatic pieces". A young, blameless silk - winding girl is wandering innocently through the environs of Asolo, in her mind attributing kindness and virtue to the people she passes . She sings as she goes, her song influencing others to act for the good--or, at the least, reminding them of the existence of a moral order . Alexandra Leighton (Mrs Sutherland Orr) described the moment of inspiration: </P>

Who said god's in his heaven all's right with the world