Prometheus Bound: And Other Poems; Including Sonnets From the Portuguese ...
Prometheus Bound: And Other Poems; Including Sonnets From the Portuguese ...
Browning Elizabeth Barrett
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Against the stab of worldlings who if rife Are weak to injure. Very whitely still The lilies of our lives may reassure Their blossoms from their roots ! accessible Alone to heavenly dews that drop not fewer; Growing straight, out of man's reach, on the hill. God only, who made us rich, can make us poor. XXV. A HEAVY heart. Beloved, 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 God's 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 doth precipitate, ' While thine doth close above it mediating Betwixt thi' stars and the unaccomplished &te. THE POBTUOXTESE. 165 XXVI. I LIVED with visions for my company Instead of men and women, years ago, And found tbem gentle mates, nor thought to know A sweeter music than they played to me..
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