Literature
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Aurora Leigh: Book 4 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
They met still sooner. ‘Twas a year from thenceThat Lucy Gresham, the sick sempstress girl,Who sewed by Marian’s chair so…
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Aurora Leigh: Book 5 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Aurora Leigh, be humble. Shall I hopeTo speak my poems in mysterious tuneWith man and nature? with the lava-lymphThat trickles…
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Aurora Leigh: Book 6 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The English have a scornful insular wayOf calling the French light. The levityIs in the judgment only, which yet stands,For…
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Aurora Leigh: Book 7 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“The woman’s motive? shall we daub ourselvesWith finding roots for nettles? ‘tis soft clayAnd easily explored. She had the means,The…
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Aurora Leigh: Book 8 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
One eve it happened, when I sat alone,Alone, upon the terrace of my tower,A book upon my knees to counterfeitThe…
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Aurora Leigh: Book 9 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Even thus. I pause to write it out at length,The letter of the Lady Waldemar. "I prayed your cousin Leigh…
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A Woman’s Shortcomings by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
She has laughed as softly as if she sighed,She has counted six, and over,Of a purse well filled, and a…
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A Year’s Spinning by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
He listened at the porch that day, To hear the wheel go on, and on; And then it stopped, ran…
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Bianca Among The Nightingales by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The cypress stood up like a churchThat night we felt our love would hold,And saintly moonlight seemed to searchAnd wash…
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Change Upon Change by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Five months ago the stream did flow,The lilies bloomed within the sedge,And we were lingering to and fro,Where none will…
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