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Exaggeration

By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Topics: classic

We overstate the ills of life, and take     Imagination (given us to bring down     The choirs of singing angels overshone     By God's clear glory) down our earth to rake     The dismal snows instead, flake following flake,     To cover all the corn; we walk upon     The shadow of hills across a level thrown,     And pant like climbers: near the alder brake     We sigh so loud, the nightingale within     Refuses to sing loud, as else she would.     O brothers, let us leave the shame and sin     Of taking vainly, in a plaintive mood,     The holy name of grief! holy herein     That by the grief of one came all our good.

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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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