I bore it ; friends soothed me ; my grief looked sublime
As the ransom of Italy.
(Mother And Poet)
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Fire is bright,Let temple burn, or flax; an equal light
Leaps in the flame from cedar-plank or weed:
And love is fire.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
And Chaucer, with his infantine Familiar clasp of things divine.
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He said true things, but called them by wrong names.
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Said, Dear, I love thee; and I sank and quailed
As if God's future thundered on my past.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Holy Night We sate among the stalls at Bethlehem The dumb kine from their fodder turning them, Softened their horned faces To almost human gazes Toward the newly Born The simple shepherds from the star-lit brooks Brought visionary looks, As yet in their astonied hearing rung The strange sweet angel-tongue The magi of the East, in sandals worn, Knelt reverent, sweeping round, With long pale beards, their gifts upon the ground, The incense, myrrh, and gold These baby hands were impotent to hold So let all earthlies and celestials wait Upon thy royal state. Sleep, sleep, my kingly One.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The seraph sings before the manifest
God-One, and in the burning of the Seven,
And with the full life of consummate
Heaving beneath him like a mother's
Warm with her first-born's slumber in that
The poet sings upon the earth grave-riven,
Before the naughty world, soon self-forgiven
For wronging him,--and in the darkness prest
From his own soul by worldly weights.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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