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Tears

By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Thank God, bless God, all ye who suffer not     More grief than ye can weep for. That is well     That is light grieving! lighter, none befell     Since Adam forfeited the primal lot.     Tears! what are tears? The babe weeps in its cot,     The mother singing, at her marriage-bell     The bride weeps, and before the oracle     Of high-faned hills the poet has forgot     Such moisture on his cheeks. Thank God for grace,     Ye who weep only! If, as some have done,     Ye grope tear-blinded in a desert place     And touch but tombs, look up I those tears will run     Soon in long rivers down the lifted face,     And leave the vision clear for stars and sun

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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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