Poetry
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The Lady’s Yes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
” Yes !” I answered you last night ;” No !” this morning, Sir, I say !Colours, seen by candle-light,Will…
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The Look by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Saviour looked on Peter. Ay, no word,No gesture of reproach; the Heavens sereneThough heavy with armed justice, did not…
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The Meaning Of The Look by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I think that look of Christ might seem to say‘Thou Peter! art thou then a common stoneWhich I at last…
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The North And The South by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I“Now give us lands where the olives grow,”Cried the North to the South,“Where the sun with a golden mouth can…
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The Poet And The Bird by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Said a people to a poet “Go out from among us straightway!While we are thinking earthly things, thou singest of…
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The Prisoner by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I count the dismal time by months and yearsSince last I felt the green sward under foot,And the great breath…
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The Romaunt Of Margret (Excerpts) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
IX My lips do need thy breath,My lips do need thy smile,And my pallid eyne, that light in thineWhich met…
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The Runaway Slave At Pilgrim’s Point by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I.I stand on the mark beside the shoreOf the first white pilgrim’s bended knee,Where exile turned to ancestor,And God was…
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The Seraph And The Poet by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The seraph sings before the manifestGod-One, and in the burning of the Seven,And with the full life of consummateHeaving beneath…
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The Soul’s Expression by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
With stammering lips and insufficient soundI strive and struggle to deliver rightThat music of my nature, day and nightWith dream…
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