Sonnet I
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I thought once how Theocritus had sung Of the sweet years, the dear and wished-for years, Who each one in a gracious hand appears To bear a gift for mortals, old or young: And, as I mused it in his antique tongue, I saw, in gradual vision through my tears, The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years, Those of my own life, who by turns had flung A shadow across me. Straightway I was 'ware, So weeping, how a mystic Shape did move Behind me, and drew me backward by the hair: And a voice said in mastery, while I strove,-- 'Guess now who holds thee ? '--' Death,' I said. But, there, The silver answer rang,--' Not Death, but Love.'
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- Elizabeth Barrett Browning : Sonnet 44 - Beloved, Thou Hast Brought Me Many Flowers
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning : Sonnet 43 - How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count The Ways
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning : Sonnet 42 - 'my Future Will Not Copy Fair My Past'
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning : Sonnet 41 - I Thank All Who Have Loved Me In Their Hearts
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning : Sonnet 40 - Oh, Yes! They Love Through All This World Of Ours!
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning : Sonnet 39 - Because Thou Hast The Power And Own'st The Grace
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning : Sonnet 38 - First Time He Kissed Me, He But Only Kissed
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning : Sonnet 37 - Pardon, Oh, Pardon, That My Soul Should Make
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning : Sonnet 36 - When We Met First And Loved, I Did Not Build
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning : Sonnet 35 - If I Leave All For Thee, Wilt Thou Exchange