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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Mar 6, 1806
to
Jun 29, 1861
Other Works
Bereavement Work (What are we set on earth for? ...) The Prisoner The Poet's Vow. Part The First On A Portrait Of Wordsworth Irreparableness Insufficiency To George Sand: A Recognition The Two Sayings Pain In Pleasure Adequacy Futurity A Rhapsody Of Life's Progress The Seraph And Poet Comfort (Speak low to me, my Saviour, low and sweet ...) A False Step Exaggeration Loved Once The Soul's Expression SubstitutionAn Apprehension
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If all the gentlest-hearted friends I know
Concentred in one heart their gentleness,
That still grew gentler, till its pulse was less
For life than pity, -- I should yet be slow
To bring my own heart nakedly below
The palm of such a friend, that he should press
Motive, condition, means, appliances,
My false ideal joy and fickle wo,
Out full to light and knowledge. I should fear
Some plait between the brows -- some rougher chime
In the free voice ... O angels, let the flood
Of bitter scorn dash on me! Do ye hear
What I say, who bear camly all the time
This everlasting face-to-face with GOD?
Source:
The Poems Of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume 1Copyright 1853
C. S. Francis & Co., 262 Broadway, New York
Crosby & Nichols, Boston