Literature
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You’ll Love Me Yet by Robert Browning
You’ll Love Me Yet was published in the anthology, The Oxford Book of English Verse (1900), compiled by the author…
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A Child Asleep by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How he sleepeth! having drunkenWeary childhood’s mandragore,From his pretty eyes have sunkenPleasures, to make room for moreSleeping near the withered…
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A Curse For A Nation by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Prologue I heard an angel speak last night, And he said "Write! Write a Nation's curse for me, And send…
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A Dead Rose by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
O Rose! who dares to name thee?No longer roseate now, nor soft, nor sweet;But pale, and hard, and dry, as…
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Adequacy by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Now, by the verdure on thy thousand hills,Beloved England, doth the earth appearQuite good enough for men to overbearThe will…
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A Man’s Requirements by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I Love me Sweet, with all thou art, Feeling, thinking, seeing; Love me in the lightest part, Love me in…
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A Musical Instrument by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Great God Pan, the gothic horror novella by Arthur Machen, was inspired by this Browning poem I.What was he…
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An Apprehension by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If all the gentlest-hearted friends I knowConcentred in one heart their gentleness,That still grew gentler till its pulse was lessFor…
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A Sea-Side Walk by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
We walked beside the sea,After a day which perished silentlyOf its own glory, like the Princess weirdWho, combating the Genius,…
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A Thought For A Lonely Death-Bed by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
INSCRIBED TO MY FRIEND E. C. If God compel thee to this destiny, To die alone, with none beside thy…
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