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Since first I heard the footsteps of thy soul The face of all the world is changed, I think, God for myself, He hears that name of thine,Īnd sees within my eyes the tears of two. Without the sense of that which I forbore-ĭoom takes to part us, leaves thy heart in mineĪnd what I dream include thee, as the wine That none of all the fires shall scorch and shred If thy foot in scornĬould tread them out to darkness utterly, What a great heap of grief lay hid in me, The bats and owlets builders in the roof! Of watching up thy pregnant lips for more.Īnd dost thou lift this house's latch too poorįor hand of thine? and canst thou think and bear The dancers will break footing, from the care Most gracious singer of high poems! where Thou hast thy calling to some palace-floor, The chrism is on thine head,-on mine, the dew,-Īnd Death must dig the level where these agree. With looking from the lattice-lights at me,Ī poor, tired, wandering singer, singing through Than tears even can make mine, to play thy part Thou, bethink thee, artĪ guest for queens to social pageantries, We should but vow the faster for the stars. Our hands would touch for all the mountain-bars:Īnd, heaven being rolled between us at the end, Nor the seas change us, nor the tempests bend Men could not part us with their worldly jars, The deathweights, placed there, would have signifiedįrom God than from all others, O my friend! My sight from seeing thee,-that if I had died,
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Thee speaking, and me listening! and replied Have heard this word thou hast said,-Himself, beside The silver answer rang,-"Not Death, but Love." "Guess now who holds thee ?" - "Death," I said. Straightway I was 'ware,īehind me, and drew me backward by the hair Īnd a voice said in mastery, while I strove, Those of my own life, who by turns had flungĪ shadow across me. The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years, I saw, in gradual vision through my tears, To bear a gift for mortals, old or young:Īnd, as I mused it in his antique tongue, Of the sweet years, the dear and wished for years, See the Victorian Web Elizabeth Barrett Browning page. Past and Future (University of Toronto)."Belovèd, thou hast brought me many flowers" "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways" ( audio) "I thank all who have loved me in their hearts" "Oh, yes! they love through all this world of ours"
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"Because thou hast the power and own'st the grace" "First time he kissed me, he but only kissed" "Pardon, oh, pardon, that my soul should make" "When we met first and loved, I did not build" "If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange" "With the same heart, I said, I'll answer thee" "Yes, call me by my pet-name! let me hear" "The first time that the sun rose on thine oath" "Thou comest! all is said without a word" "I see thine image through my tears to-night" "I think of thee!-my thoughts do twine and bud" "My letters! all dead paper, mute and white" "Let the world's sharpness, like a clasping knife" "When our two souls stand up erect and strong" "Say over again, and yet once over again" "My poet, thou canst touch on all the notes" "Accuse me not, beseech thee, that I wear" "If thou must love me, let it be for nought" ( audio) "And wilt thou have me fashion into speech" "Indeed this very love which is my boast" "Yet, love, mere love, is beautiful indeed" "Can it be right to give what I can give" "The face of all the world is changed, I think" "Thou hast thy calling to some palace-floor" "Unlike are we, unlike, O princely Heart" Elizabeth Barrett Browning Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)