Poetry
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Aurora Leigh: Book 8 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
One eve it happened, when I sat alone,Alone, upon the terrace of my tower,A book upon my knees to counterfeitThe…
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Aurora Leigh: Book 9 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Even thus. I pause to write it out at length,The letter of the Lady Waldemar. "I prayed your cousin Leigh…
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A Woman’s Shortcomings by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
She has laughed as softly as if she sighed,She has counted six, and over,Of a purse well filled, and a…
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A Year’s Spinning by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
He listened at the porch that day, To hear the wheel go on, and on; And then it stopped, ran…
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Bianca Among The Nightingales by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The cypress stood up like a churchThat night we felt our love would hold,And saintly moonlight seemed to searchAnd wash…
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Change Upon Change by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Five months ago the stream did flow,The lilies bloomed within the sedge,And we were lingering to and fro,Where none will…
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Cheerfulness Taught By Reason by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I think we are too ready with complaintIn this fair world of God’s. Had we no hopeIndeed beyond the zenith…
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Chorus Of Eden Spirits by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Hearken, oh hearken! let your souls behind youTurn, gently moved!Our voices feel along the Dread to find you,O lost, beloved!Through…
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Comfort by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Speak low to me, my Saviour, low and sweetFrom out the hallelujahs, sweet and lowLest I should fear and fall,…
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De Profundis by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I The face, which, duly as the sun, Rose up for me with life begun, To mark all bright hours…
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