Work And Contemplation (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
The woman singeth at her spinning-wheel A pleasant chant, ballad or barcarole; She thinketh of her song, upon the whole, ...
The woman singeth at her spinning-wheel A pleasant chant, ballad or barcarole; She thinketh of her song, upon the whole, ...
THE seraph sings before the manifest God-One, and in the burning of the Seven, And with the full life of ...
I count the dismal time by months and years Since last I felt the green sward under foot, And the ...
'O DREARY life,' we cry, ' O dreary life ! ' And still the generations of the birds Sing through ...
Said a people to a poet---" Go out from among us straightway! While we are thinking earthly things, thou singest ...
I 'But where do you go?' said the lady, while both sat under the yew, And her eyes were alive ...
IF God compel thee to this destiny, To die alone, with none beside thy bed To ruffle round with sobs ...
I think that look of Christ might seem to say-- 'Thou Peter ! art thou then a common stone Which ...
I The face, which, duly as the sun, Rose up for me with life begun, To mark all bright hours ...
THOU large-brained woman and large-hearted man, Self-called George Sand ! whose soul, amid the lions Of thy tumultuous senses, moans ...
XIX The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise; I barter curl for curl upon that mart, And from my poet's forehead ...
What can I give thee back, O liberal And princely giver, who hast brought the gold And purple of thine ...
And yet, because thou overcomest so, Because thou art more noble and like a king, Thou canst prevail against my ...
WE overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination (given us to bring down The choirs of singing angels overshone ...
TRUE genius, but true woman ! dost deny The woman's nature with a manly scorn And break away the gauds ...
"Yes," I answered you last night; "No," this morning, Sir, I say. Colours seen by candlelight, Will not look the ...
We walked beside the sea, After a day which perished silently Of its own glory---like the Princess weird Who, combating ...
WITH stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right That music of my nature, day and ...
Accuse me not, beseech thee, that I wear Too calm and sad a face in front of thine; For we ...
My poet, thou canst touch on all the notes God set between his After and Before, And strike up and ...
I lived with visions for my company Instead of men and women, years ago, And found them gentle mates, nor ...
Because thou hast the power and own'st the grace To look through and behind this mask of me (Against which ...
Let the world's sharpness, like a clasping knife, Shut in upon itself and do no harm In this close hand ...
A THOUGHT ay like a flower upon mine heart, And drew around it other thoughts like bees For multitude and ...
The Saviour looked on Peter. Ay, no word, No gesture of reproach; the Heavens serene Though heavy with armed justice, ...
Pardon, oh, pardon, that my soul should make, Of all that strong divineness which I know For thine and thee, ...
Thou hast thy calling to some palace-floor, Most gracious singer of high poems! where The dancers will break footing, from ...
Unlike are we, unlike, O princely Heart! Unlike our uses and our destinies. Our ministering two angels look surprise On ...
I. Dead ! One of them shot by the sea in the east, And one of them shot in the ...
I see thine image through my tears to-night, And yet to-day I saw thee smiling. How Refer the cause?-Beloved, is ...
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