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The Soul's Expression

By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Topics: classic

With stammering lips and insufficient sound     I strive and struggle to deliver right     That music of my nature, day and night     With dream and thought and feeling interwound     And inly answering all the senses round     With octaves of a mystic depth and height     Which step out grandly to the infinite     From the dark edges of the sensual ground.     This song of soul I struggle to outbear     Through portals of the sense, sublime and whole,     And utter all myself into the air:     But if I did it, as the thunder-roll     Breaks its own cloud, my flesh would perish there,     Before that dread apocalypse of soul.

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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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