Poetry
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Lord Walter’s Wife by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I 'But where do you go?' said the lady, while both sat under the yew, And her eyes were alive…
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Minstrelsy by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
For ever, since my childish looksCould rest on Nature’s pictured books;For ever, since my childish tongueCould name the themes our…
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Mother And Poet by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I.Dead! One of them shot by the sea in the east,And one of them shot in the west by the…
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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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