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The Seraph And The Poet

By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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The seraph sings before the manifest     God-One, and in the burning of the Seven,     And with the full life of consummate     Heaving beneath him like a mother's     Warm with her first-born's slumber in that     The poet sings upon the earth grave-riven,     Before the naughty world, soon self-forgiven     For wronging him, and in the darkness prest     From his own soul by worldly weights.     Even so, Sing, seraph with the glory! heaven is high;     Sing, poet with the sorrow! earth is low:     The universe's inward voices cry     'Amen' to either song of joy and woe:     Sing, seraph, poet, sing on equally!

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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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