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Sonnets From The Portuguese VI

By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Topics: classic

Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand     Henceforward in thy shadow. Nevermore     Alone upon the threshold of my door     Of individual life, I shall command     The uses of my soul, nor lift my hand     Serenely in the sunshine as before,     Without the sense of that which I forbore     Thy touch upon the palm. The widest land     Doom takes to part us, leaves thy heart in mine     With pulses that beat double. What I do     And what I dream include thee, as the wine     Must taste of its own grapes. And when I sue     God for myself, He hears that name of thine,     And sees within my eyes the tears of two.

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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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