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Pain In Pleasure

By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Topics: classic

A thought ay like a flower upon mine heart,     And drew around it other thoughts like bees     For multitude and thirst of sweetnesses;     Whereat rejoicing, I desired the art     Of the Greek whistler, who to wharf and mart     Could lure those insect swarms from orange-trees     That I might hive with me such thoughts and please     My soul so, always. foolish counterpart     Of a weak man's vain wishes! While I spoke,     The thought I called a flower grew nettle-rough     The thoughts, called bees, stung me to festering:     Oh, entertain (cried Reason as she woke)     Your best and gladdest thoughts but long enough,     And they will all prove sad enough to sting!

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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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