Category Archives: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Past And Future – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Posted on November 2, 2015 by

Past And Future.MY future will not copy fair my past  On any leaf but Heaven’s. Be fully done,  Supernal Will ! I would not fain be one  Who, satisfying thirst and breaking fast  Upon the fulness of the heart, at … Continue reading →

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Only A Curl – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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I.  FRIENDS of faces unknown and a land  Unvisited over the sea,  Who tell me how lonely you stand  With a single gold curl in the hand  Held up to be looked at by me, —  II.  While you ask … Continue reading →

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Love – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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We cannot live, except thus mutually  We alternate, aware or unaware,  The reflex act of life: and when we bear  Our virtue onward most impulsively,  Most full of invocation, and to be  Most instantly compellant, certes, there  We live most … Continue reading →

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Comfort – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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SPEAK low to me, my Saviour, low and sweet  From out the hallelujahs, sweet and low  Lest I should fear and fall, and miss Thee so  Who art not missed by any that entreat.  Speak to mo as to Mary … Continue reading →

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A Woman’s Shortcomings – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Posted on November 1, 2015 by

She has laughed as softly as if she sighed,  She has counted six, and over,  Of a purse well filled, and a heart well tried –  Oh, each a worthy lover!  They “give her time”; for her soul must slip  … Continue reading →

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A Musical Instrument – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Posted on November 1, 2015 by

What was he doing, the great god Pan,  Down in the reeds by the river?  Spreading ruin and scattering ban,  Splashing and paddling with hoofs of a goat,  And breaking the golden lilies afloat  With the dragon-fly on the river.  … Continue reading →

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A Man’s Requirements – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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I  Love me Sweet, with all thou art,  Feeling, thinking, seeing;  Love me in the lightest part,  Love me in full being.  II  Love me with thine open youth  In its frank surrender;  With the vowing of thy mouth,  With … Continue reading →

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