Literature
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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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Pain In Pleasure by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A thought ay like a flower upon mine heart,And drew around it other thoughts like beesFor multitude and thirst of…
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Past And Future by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
My future will not copy fair my pastOn any leaf but Heaven’s. Be fully done,Supernal Will! I would not fain…
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Patience Taught By Nature by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
‘O dreary life,’ we cry, ‘O dreary life!’And still the generations of the birdsSing through our sighing, and the flocks…
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Perplexed Music by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED TO E. J. Experience, like a pale musician, holdsA dulcimer of patience in his hand,Whence harmonies, we cannot…
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Rosalind’s Scroll by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Rosalind’s Scroll was published in the anthology, The Oxford Book of English Verse (1900), compiled by the author Sir Arthur…
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Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets from the Portuguese is Ms. Browning’s most widely recognized collection of works. The sonnets are indexed by their first…
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Stanzas on the Death of Lord Byron by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
He was, and is not! Graecia’s trembling shore,Sighing through all her palmy groves, shall tellThat Harold’s pilgrimage at last is…
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