Aurora Leigh (excerpts) (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
I am like, They tell me, my dear father. Broader brows Howbeit, upon a slenderer undergrowth Of delicate ...
I am like, They tell me, my dear father. Broader brows Howbeit, upon a slenderer undergrowth Of delicate ...
Let the world's sharpness, like a clasping knife, Shut in upon itself and do no harm In this close hand ...
We sow the glebe, we reap the corn, We build the house where we may rest, And then, at moments, ...
Go, sit upon the lofty hill, And turn your eyes around, Where waving woods and waters wild Do hymn an ...
1. But Los saw the Female & pitied He embrac'd her, she wept, she refus'd In perverse and cruel delight ...
1. The voice ended, they saw his pale visage Emerge from the darkness; his hand On the rock of eternity ...
Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years? They are leaning their young ...
1. Urizen explor'd his dens Mountain, moor, & wilderness, With a globe of fire lighting his journey A fearful journey, ...
1. Then the Inhabitants of those Cities: Felt their Nerves change into Marrow And hardening Bones began In swift diseases ...
Thou fair hair'd angel of the evening, Now, while the sun rests on the mountains light, Thy bright torch of ...
But in the Wine-presses the human grapes sing not nor dance: They howl and writhe in shoals of torment, in ...
AFRICA I will sing you a song of Los. the Eternal Prophet: He sung it to four harps at the ...
The Argument. Rintrah roars & shakes his fires in the burdend air; Hungry clouds swag on the deep Once meek, ...
The vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my vision's greatest enemy. Thine has a great hook nose like ...
To Mercy Pity Peace and Love. All pray in their distress: And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. ...
Pity would be no more, If we did not make somebody Poor; And Mercy no more could be. If all ...
To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the ...
don't feel sorry for me. I am a competent, satisfied human being. be sorry for the others who fidget complain ...
You cannot change the world, But you can present the world with one improved person -- Yourself. You can go ...
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men ...
Bury thy sorrows, and they shall rise As souls to the immortal skies, And there look down like mothers' eyes. ...
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