Elizabeth Barrett Browning

1806-1861 / Female / English
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A Child’s Thought Of GodThey say that God lives very high; / But if you look above the pines / You cannot see our God; and why?
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A Musical InstrumentWhat was he doing, the great god Pan, / Down in the reeds by the river? / Spreading ruin and scattering ban,
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A Year’s Spinning1 / He listened at the porch that day, / To hear the wheel go on, and on;
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Bianca Among The NightingalesThe cypress stood up like a church / That night we felt our love would hold, / And saintly moonlight seemed to search
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ConsolationAll are not taken; there are left behind / Living Belovèds, tender looks to bring / And make the daylight still a happy thing,
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GriefI tell you hopeless grief is passionless, / That only men incredulous of despair, / Half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air
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Rosalind’s ScrollI left thee last, a child at heart, / A woman scarce in years: / I come to thee, a solemn corpse
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Sonnet 01 - I Thought Once How Theocritus Had SungI / I thought once how Theocritus had sung / Of the sweet years, the dear and wished-for years,
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Sonnet 02 - But Only Three In All God’s UniverseII / But only three in all God’s universe / Have heard this word thou hast said,—Himself, beside
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Sonnet 03 - Unlike Are We, Unlike, O Princely Heart!III / Unlike are we, unlike, O princely Heart! / Unlike our uses and our destinies.
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