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Comfort

By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Speak low to me, my Saviour, low and sweet     From out the hallelujahs, sweet and low     Lest I should fear and fall, and miss Thee so     Who art not missed by any that entreat.     Speak to mo as to Mary at thy feet!     And if no precious gums my hands bestow,     Let my tears drop like amber while I go     In reach of thy divinest voice complete     In humanest affection, thus, in sooth,     To lose the sense of losing. As a child,     Whose song-bird seeks the wood for evermore     Is sung to in its stead by mother's mouth     Till, sinking on her breast, love-reconciled,     He sleeps the faster that he wept before.

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About Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) was one of the most prominent English poets of the Victorian era. Her "Sonnets from the Portuguese" are among the most famous love poems in English, and her verse novel "Aurora Leigh" addressed women's roles in society and art.

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