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 ...
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems (143 Poems)
The Sweetness Of England (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
And when, at lastEscaped,-so many a green slope built on slopeBetwixt me and the enemy's house behind,I dared to rest, ...
The Romaunt of Margret (excerpts) (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
IX"My lips do need thy breath, My lips do need thy smile, And my pallid eyne, ...
The North And The South (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
I "Now give us lands where the olives grow," Cried the North to the South, "Where the sun with a ...
To (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
Mine is a wayward lay;And, if its echoing rhymes I try to string, Proveth a truant thing,Whenso some ...
The Lady’s Yes. (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
Yes ! I answered you last night ; " No !" this morning, Sir, I say ! Colours, seen ...
Sonnet XXIX: I Think of Thee (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
I think of thee! — my thoughts do twine and bud About thee,as wild vines, about a tree, Put out ...
Sonnet XXI: Say Over Again (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
Say over again, and yet once over again, That thou dost love me. Though the word repeated Should seem "a ...
Past and Future. (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
MY future will not copy fair my past On any leaf but Heaven's. Be fully done, Supernal Will ! I ...
Sonnet XIV: If Thou Must Love Me (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
If thou must love me, let it be for noughtExcept for love's sake only. Do not say"I love her for ...
Sonnet XXXVI: When We Met First (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
When we met first and loved, I did not buildUpon the event with marble. Could it meanTo last, a love ...
Sonnet XXXII: The First Time (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
The first time that the sun rose on thine oathTo love me, I looked forward to the moonTo slacken all ...
Sonnet I: I Thought Once How Theocritus (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
I thought once how Theocritus had sungOf the sweet years, the dear and wished-for years,Who each one in a gracious ...
Sonnet XXXVIII: First Time He Kissed Me (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
First time he kissed me, he but only kissedThe finger of this hand wherewith I write;And ever since, it grew ...
Sonnet VII: The Face of All the World (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
The face of all the world is changed, I think,Since first I heard the footsteps of thy soulMove still, oh, ...
Sonnet XXXV: If I Leave All for Thee (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchangeAnd be all to me? Shall I never missHome-talk and blessings and ...
Sonnet XXVI: I Lived With Visions (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
I lived with visions for my company Instead of men and women, years ago, And found them gentle mates, nor ...
Sonnet XXX: I See Thine Image (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
I see thine image through my tears to-night,And yet to-day I saw thee smiling. HowRefer the cause?—Beloved, is it thouOr ...
Sonnet X: Yet Love, Mere Love (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
Yet, love, mere love, is beautiful indeedAnd worthy of acceptation. Fire is bright,Let temple burn, or flax; an equal lightLeaps ...
Sonnet XX: Belov?d, My Belov?d (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
Belov?d, my Belov?d, when I think That thou wast in the world a year ago, What time I sat alone ...
Sonnet XVIII: I Never Gave a Lock of Hair (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
I never gave a lock of hair awayTo a man, dearest, except this to thee,Which now upon my fingers thoughtfully,I ...
Sonnet XXII: When Our Two Souls Stand Up (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
When our two souls stand up erect and strong, Face to face, silent, drawing nigh and nigher, Until the lengthening ...
Sonnet XIX: The Soul’s Rialto (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise; I barter curl for curl upon that mart, And from my poet's forehead to ...
Sonnet XXXI: Thou Comest! (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
Thou comest! all is said without a word. I sit beneath thy looks, as children do In the noon-sun, with ...
Work (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
WHAT are we set on earth for? Say, to toil;Nor seek to leave thy tending of the vinesFor all the ...
Sonnet XLI: I Thank All (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
I thank all who have loved me in their hearts,With thanks and love from mine. Deep thanks to allWho paused ...
Sonnet XXIV: Let the World’s Sharpness (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
Let the world's sharpness like a clasping knifeShut in upon itself and do no harmIn this close hand of Love, ...
Sonnet XI: And Therefore If to Love (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
And therefore if to love can be desert, I am not all unworthy. Cheeks as pale As these you see, ...
Sonnet XXXVII: Pardon, Oh, Pardon (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
Pardon, oh, pardon, that my soul should make, Of all that strong divineness which I know For thine and thee, ...
Sonnet XLII: My Future (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
My future will not copy fair my past -I wrote that once; and thinking at my sideMy ministering life-angel justifiedThe ...