More from Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  1. Or from Browning some 'Pomegranate,' which, if cut deep down the middle, Shows a heart within blood-tinctured of a veined humanity.
  2. Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years? They are leaning their young heads against their mothers- …
  3. I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
  4. Therefore to this dog will I, Tenderly not scornfully, Render praise and favor: With my hand upon his head, Is my benediction said Therefor…
  5. 'Yes,' I answered you last night; 'No,' this morning, Sir, I say. Colours seen by candlelight, Will not look the same by day.
  6. Unless you can muse in a crowd all day On the absent face that fixed you; Unless you can love, as the angels may, With the breadth of heave…
  7. What was he doing, the great god Pan, Down in the reeds by the river? Spreading ruin and scattering ban, Splashing and paddling with hoofs …
  8. The cypress stood up like a church That night we felt our love would hold, And saintly moonlight seemed to search And wash the whole world …

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