Sonnet 12 - Indeed This Very Love Which Is My Boast
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
XII Indeed this very love which is my boast, And which, when rising up from breast to brow, Doth crown me with a ruby large enow To draw men’s eyes and prove the inner cost,— This love even, all my worth, to the uttermost, I should not love withal, unless that thou Hadst set me an example, shown me how, When first thine earnest eyes with mine were crossed, And love called love. And thus, I cannot speak Of love even, as a good thing of my own: Thy soul hath snatched up mine all faint and weak, And placed it by thee on a golden throne,— And that I love (O soul, we must be meek!) Is by thee only, whom I love alone.
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- Elizabeth Barrett Browning : Sonnet 15 - Accuse Me Not, Beseech Thee, That I Wear
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- Elizabeth Barrett Browning : Sonnet 20 - Beloved, My Beloved, When I Think
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- Elizabeth Barrett Browning : Sonnet 11 - And Therefore If To Love Can Be Desert
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning : Sonnet 10 - Yet, Love, Mere Love, Is Beautiful Indeed
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning : Sonnet 09 - Can It Be Right To Give What I Can Give?
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning : Sonnet 08 - What Can I Give Thee Back, O Liberal
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning : Sonnet 07 - The Face Of All The World Is Changed, I Think
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning : Sonnet 06 - Go From Me. Yet I Feel That I Shall Stand
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning : Sonnet 05 - I Lift My Heavy Heart Up Solemnly
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning : Sonnet 04 - Thou Hast Thy Calling To Some Palace-floor
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning : Sonnet 03 - Unlike Are We, Unlike, O Princely Heart!
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning : Sonnet 02 - But Only Three In All God's Universe