Poetry
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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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Aurora Leigh: Book 1 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Of writing many books there is no end;And I who have written much in prose and verseFor others’ uses, will…
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Aurora Leigh: Book 2 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Times followed one another. Came a mornI stood upon the brink of twenty years,And looked before and after, as I…
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Aurora Leigh: Book 3 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“To-day thou girdest up thy loins thyselfAnd goest where thou wouldest: presentlyOthers shall gird thee,” said the Lord, “to goWhere…
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Aurora Leigh: Book 4 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
They met still sooner. ‘Twas a year from thenceThat Lucy Gresham, the sick sempstress girl,Who sewed by Marian’s chair so…
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Aurora Leigh: Book 5 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Aurora Leigh, be humble. Shall I hopeTo speak my poems in mysterious tuneWith man and nature? with the lava-lymphThat trickles…
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Aurora Leigh: Book 6 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The English have a scornful insular wayOf calling the French light. The levityIs in the judgment only, which yet stands,For…
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Aurora Leigh: Book 7 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“The woman’s motive? shall we daub ourselvesWith finding roots for nettles? ‘tis soft clayAnd easily explored. She had the means,The…
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