More from Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  1. Nay, if there's room for poets in the world A little overgrown, (I think there is) Their sole work is to represent the age, Their age, not …
  2. Man, the two-fold creature, apprehends The two-fold manner, in and outwardly, And nothing in the world comes single to him. A mere itself,-…
  3. That he, in his developed manhood, stood A little sunburnt by the glare of life; While I . . it seemed no sun had shone on me.
  4. And truly, I reiterate, . . nothing's small! No lily-muffled hum of a summer-bee, But finds some coupling with the spinning stars; No pebbl…
  5. God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in't.
  6. The face, which, duly as the sun, Rose up for me with life begun, To mark all bright hours of the day With hourly love, is dimmed away - An…
  7. If I married him, I would not dare to call my soul my own, Which so he had bought and paid for: every thought And every heart-beat down the…
  8. The heart which, like a staff, was one For mine to lean and rest upon, The strongest on the longest day With steadfast love, is caught away…

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