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Sonnets From The Portuguese XV

By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Accuse me not, beseech thee, that I wear     Too calm and sad a face in front of thine;     For we two look two ways, and cannot shine     With the same sunlight on our brow and hair.     On me thou lookest with no doubting care,     As on a bee shut in a crystalline;     Since sorrow hath shut me safe in loves divine,     And to spread wing and fly in the outer air     Were most impossible failure, if I strove     To fail so. But I look on thee, on thee,     Beholding, besides love, the end of love,     Hearing oblivion beyond memory;     As one who sits and gazes from above,     Over the rivers to the bitter sea.

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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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