Only a Curl. (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
I. FRIENDS of faces unknown and a land Unvisited over the sea, Who tell me how lonely you stand ...
I. FRIENDS of faces unknown and a land Unvisited over the sea, Who tell me how lonely you stand ...
I "Now give us lands where the olives grow," Cried the North to the South, "Where the sun with a ...
I lived with visions for my company Instead of men and women, years ago, And found them gentle mates, nor ...
I never gave a lock of hair awayTo a man, dearest, except this to thee,Which now upon my fingers thoughtfully,I ...
When our two souls stand up erect and strong, Face to face, silent, drawing nigh and nigher, Until the lengthening ...
Let the world's sharpness like a clasping knifeShut in upon itself and do no harmIn this close hand of Love, ...
But only three in all God's universe Have heard this word thou hast said,--Himself, beside Thee speaking, and me listening ...
I. FRIENDS of faces unknown and a land Unvisited over the sea, Who tell me how lonely you stand With ...
God, God! With a child's voice I cry, Weak, sad, confidingly- God, God! Thou knowest, eyelids, raised not always up ...
I am like, They tell me, my dear father. Broader brows Howbeit, upon a slenderer undergrowth Of delicate ...
I heard an angel speak last night, And he said 'Write! Write a Nation's curse for me, And send it ...
I 'But where do you go?' said the lady, while both sat under the yew, And her eyes were alive ...
I think that look of Christ might seem to say-- 'Thou Peter ! art thou then a common stone Which ...
TRUE genius, but true woman ! dost deny The woman's nature with a manly scorn And break away the gauds ...
THOU large-brained woman and large-hearted man, Self-called George Sand ! whose soul, amid the lions Of thy tumultuous senses, moans ...
Let the world's sharpness, like a clasping knife, Shut in upon itself and do no harm In this close hand ...
I lived with visions for my company Instead of men and women, years ago, And found them gentle mates, nor ...
I. Dead ! One of them shot by the sea in the east, And one of them shot in the ...
I Love me Sweet, with all thou art, Feeling, thinking, seeing; Love me in the lightest part, Love me in ...
We sow the glebe, we reap the corn, We build the house where we may rest, And then, at moments, ...
I. I stand on the mark beside the shore Of the first white pilgrim's bended knee, Where exile turned to ...
I. ENOUGH ! we're tired, my heart and I. We sit beside the headstone thus, And wish that name were ...
The cypress stood up like a church That night we felt our love would hold, And saintly moonlight seemed to ...
But only three in all God's universe Have heard this word thou hast said,-Himself, beside Thee speaking, and me listening! ...
I never gave a lock of hair away To a man, Dearest, except this to thee, Which now upon my ...
What was he doing, the great god Pan, Down in the reeds by the river? Spreading ruin and scattering ban, ...
When our two souls stand up erect and strong, Face to face, silent, drawing nigh and nigher, Until the lengthening ...
Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years? They are leaning their young ...
I tell you hopeless grief is passionless, That only men incredulous of despair, Half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air ...
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