Poetry
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Discontent by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Light human nature is too lightly tostAnd ruffled without cause, complaining onRestless with rest, until, being overthrown,It learneth to lie…
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Exaggeration by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
We overstate the ills of life, and takeImagination (given us to bring downThe choirs of singing angels overshoneBy God’s clear…
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From The Souls Travelling by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
God, God!With a childs voice I cry,Weak, sad, confidingly,God, God!Thou knowest, eyelids, raised not always upUnto Thy love (as none…
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Futurity by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
And, O beloved voices, upon whichOurs passionately call because erelongYe brake off in the middle of that songWe sang together…
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Grief by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless;That only men incredulous of despair,Half-taught in anguish, through the midnight airBeat upward to…
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How Do I Love Thee? by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How Do I Love Thee? is one of her most recognized poems, published in Barrett’s collection of 44 love poems…
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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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