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Sonnets From The Portuguese XIV

By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Topics: classic

If thou must love me, let it be for nought     Except for loves sake only. Do not say     I love her for her smile, her look, her way     Of speaking gently, for a trick of thought     That falls in well with mine, and certes brought     A sense of pleasant ease on such a day     For these things in themselves, Belovd, may     Be changed, or change for thee, and love, so wrought,     May be unwrought so. Neither love me for     Thine own dear pitys wiping my cheeks dry,     A creature might forget to weep, who bore     Thy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby!     But love me for loves sake, that evermore     Thou mayst love on, through loves eternity.

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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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