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Sonnets From The Portuguese XXV

By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Topics: classic

A heavy heart, Belovd, have I borne     From year to year until I saw thy face,     And sorrow after sorrow took the place     Of all those natural joys as lightly worn     As the stringed pearls, each lifted in its turn     By a beating heart at dance-time. Hopes apace     Were changed to long despairs, till Gods own grace     Could scarcely lift above the world forlorn     My heavy heart. Then thou didst bid me bring     And let it drop adown thy calmly great     Deep being! Fast it sinketh, as a thing     Which its own nature does precipitate,     While thine doth close above it, mediating     Betwixt the stars and the unaccomplished fate.

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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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