Literature
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Cheerfulness Taught By Reason by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I think we are too ready with complaintIn this fair world of God’s. Had we no hopeIndeed beyond the zenith…
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Chorus Of Eden Spirits by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Hearken, oh hearken! let your souls behind youTurn, gently moved!Our voices feel along the Dread to find you,O lost, beloved!Through…
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Comfort by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Speak low to me, my Saviour, low and sweetFrom out the hallelujahs, sweet and lowLest I should fear and fall,…
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De Profundis by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I The face, which, duly as the sun, Rose up for me with life begun, To mark all bright hours…
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Discontent by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Light human nature is too lightly tostAnd ruffled without cause, complaining onRestless with rest, until, being overthrown,It learneth to lie…
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Exaggeration by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
We overstate the ills of life, and takeImagination (given us to bring downThe choirs of singing angels overshoneBy God’s clear…
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From The Souls Travelling by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
God, God!With a childs voice I cry,Weak, sad, confidingly,God, God!Thou knowest, eyelids, raised not always upUnto Thy love (as none…
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Futurity by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
And, O beloved voices, upon whichOurs passionately call because erelongYe brake off in the middle of that songWe sang together…
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Grief by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless;That only men incredulous of despair,Half-taught in anguish, through the midnight airBeat upward to…
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How Do I Love Thee? by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How Do I Love Thee? is one of her most recognized poems, published in Barrett’s collection of 44 love poems…
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