Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Aurora Leigh (excerpts)
... Searched through my face, -- ay, stabbed it through and through, ...
A Curse For A Nation
... Not open enough for two friends to kiss:'For love of freedom which abates ...
Work And Contemplation
... Thus swift and steadfast, thus intent and strong ...
The Seraph and the Poet
... Even so, Sing, seraph with the glory ! heaven is high ...
The Prisoner
... Nature's lute Sounds on, behind this door so closely shut, ...
Patience Taught By Nature
... Grant me some smaller grace than comes to these !-- ...
The Poet And The Bird
... usic to our ears than any song of thine!"The poet went out weeping---the nightingale ceased chanting ...
Lord Walter's Wife
... ld defame us to hear!XIII'What reason had you, and what right,--I appel to your soul from my life,-- ...
A Thought For A Lonely Death-Bed
... Drear wine-press,--by the wilderness out-spread,-- ...
The Meaning Of The Look
... Wash thy feet, my beloved, that they should run ...
The House Of Clouds
... To which I looked with thee!Let them! Wipe such visionings ...
Only a Curl
... Be content ! He resumes nothing given, -- be sure ! ...
Consolation
... Where 'dust to dust' the love from life disjoin'd ...
Insufficiency
... And something farther, fuller, higher, rehearse ...
The Deserted Garden
... And silk was changed for shroud!Nor thought that gardener, (full of scorns ...
