Sonnet XIII: And Wilt Thou Have Me (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
And wilt thou have me fashion into speechThe love I bear thee, finding words enough,And hold the torch out, while ...
And wilt thou have me fashion into speechThe love I bear thee, finding words enough,And hold the torch out, while ...
Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall standHenceforth in thy shadow. NevermoreAlone upon the threshold of my doorOf ...
What can I give thee back, O liberalAnd princely giver, who hast brought the goldAnd purple of thine heart, unstained, ...
I LEFT thee last, a child at heart, A woman scarce in years: I come to thee, a solemn corpse ...
But only three in all God's universe Have heard this word thou hast said,--Himself, beside Thee speaking, and me listening ...
Thou hast thy calling to some palace-floor, Most gracious singer of high poems ! where The dancers will break footing, ...
For ever, since my childish looks Could rest on Nature's pictured books; For ever, since my childish tongue Could name ...
Unlike are we, unlike, O princely Heart ! Unlike our uses and our destinies. Our ministering two angels look surprise ...
EXPERIENCE, like a pale musician, holds A dulcimer of patience in his hand, Whence harmonies, we cannot understand, Of God; ...
The seraph sings before the manifest God-One, and in the burning of the Seven, And with the full life of ...
WHEN some beloved voice that was to you Both sound and sweetness, faileth suddenly, And silence, against which you dare ...
AND, O beloved voices, upon which Ours passionately call because erelong Ye brake off in the middle of that song ...
HEARKEN, oh hearken! let your souls behind you Turn, gently moved! Our voices feel along the Dread to find you, ...
I HAVE been in the meadows all the day And gathered there the nosegay that you see Singing within myself ...
Can it be right to give what I can give ? To let thee sit beneath the fall of tears ...
Two savings of the Holy Scriptures beat Like pulses in the Church's brow and breast; And by them we find ...
WORDSWORTH upon Helvellyn ! Let the cloud Ebb audibly along the mountain-wind, Then break against the rock, and show behind ...
IF all the gentlest-hearted friends I know Concentred in one heart their gentleness, That still grew gentler till its pulse ...
I would build a cloudy House For my thoughts to live in; When for earth too fancy-loose And too low ...
I. FRIENDS of faces unknown and a land Unvisited over the sea, Who tell me how lonely you stand With ...
All are not taken; there are left behind Living Belov?ds, tender looks to bring And make the daylight still a ...
When I attain to utter forth in verse Some inward thought, my soul throbs audibly Along my pulses, yearning to ...
I mind me in the days departed, How often underneath the sun With childish bounds I used to run To ...
I THINK we are too ready with complaint In this fair world of God's. Had we no hope Indeed beyond ...
God, God! With a child's voice I cry, Weak, sad, confidingly- God, God! Thou knowest, eyelids, raised not always up ...
I thought once how Theocritus had sung Of the sweet years, the dear and wished-for years, Who each one in ...
LIGHT human nature is too lightly tost And ruffled without cause, complaining on-- Restless with rest, until, being overthrown, It ...
NOW, by the verdure on thy thousand hills, Beloved England, doth the earth appear Quite good enough for men to ...
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 ...
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