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O rose, who dares to name thee? No longer roseate now, nor soft, nor sweet, But pale, and hard, and dry, as stubblewheat, Kept seven years in a drawer, thy titles shame thee.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Age: 55 †
Born: 1806
Born: March 6
Died: 1861
Died: June 30
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XI I sang his name instead of song Over and over I sang his name: Backward and forward I sang it along, With my sweetest notes, it was still the same! I sang it low, that the slave-girls near Might never guess, from what they could hear, That all the song was a name.
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Behold me! I am worthy Of thy loving, for I love thee!
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And I must bear What is ordained with patience, being aware Necessity doth front the universe With an invincible gesture.
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My future will not copy my fair past, I wrote that once. And, thinking at my side my ministering life-angel justified the word by his appealing look upcast to the white throne of God.
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I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless That only men incredulous of despair, half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air beat upward to god's throne in loud access of shrieking and reproach
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Gaze up at the stars knowing that I see the same sky and wish the same sweet dreams.
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Will that light come again, As now these tears come...falling hot and real!
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The denial of contemporary genius is the rule rather than the exception. No one counts the eagles in the nest, till there is a rush of wings and lo! they are flown.
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Or from Browning some Pomegranate, which if cut deep down the middle Shows a heart within blood-tinctured, of a veined humanity.
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World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane but is not the fruit of pain.
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And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.
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There, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understand.
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The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise, I barter for curl upon that mart.
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The music soars within the little lark, And the lark soars.
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