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Sonnets From The Portuguese XXXV

By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Topics: classic

If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange     And be all to me? Shall I never miss     Home-talk and blessing and the common kiss     That comes to each in turn, nor count it strange,     When I look up, to drop on a new range     Of walls and floors, another home than this?     Nay, wilt thou fill that place by me which is     Filled by dead eyes too tender to know change     Thats hardest. If to conquer love, has tried,     To conquer grief, tries more, as all things prove,     For grief indeed is love and grief beside.     Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love.     Yet love me, wilt thou? Open thy heart wide,     And fold within, the wet wings of thy dove.

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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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