Literature
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Human Life’s Mystery by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
We sow the glebe, we reap the corn,We build the house where we may rest,And then, at moments, suddenly,We look…
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Insufficiency by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
When I attain to utter forth in verseSome inward thought, my soul throbs audiblyAlong my pulses, yearning to be freeAnd…
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Irreparableness by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I have been in the meadows all the dayAnd gathered there the nosegay that you seeSinging within myself as bird…
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Lady Geraldine’s Courtship by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
This poem is included in The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. II (1890). Edgar Allan Poe borrowed this…
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Lord Walter’s Wife by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I 'But where do you go?' said the lady, while both sat under the yew, And her eyes were alive…
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Minstrelsy by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
For ever, since my childish looksCould rest on Nature’s pictured books;For ever, since my childish tongueCould name the themes our…
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Mother And Poet by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I.Dead! One of them shot by the sea in the east,And one of them shot in the west by the…
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My Heart And I by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
In this poem, Elizabeth Barrett Browning refers to her friend and Italian statesman promoting unification, Count Cavour, who had recently…
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On A Portrait Of Wordsworth By B. R. Haydon by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Wordsworth upon Helvellyn! Let the cloudEbb audibly along the mountain-wind,Then break against the rock, and show behindThe lowland valleys floating…
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Only A Curl by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I.Friends of faces unknown and a landUnvisited over the sea,Who tell me how lonely you standWith a single gold curl…
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