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To George Sand: A Recognition

By Elizabeth Barrett Browning


True genius, but true woman! dost deny
Thy woman's nature with a manly scorn,
And break away the gauds and armlets worn
By weaker women in captivity?
Ah, vain denial! that revolted cry
Is sobbed in by a woman's voice forlorn: --
Thy woman's hair, my sister, all unshorn,
Floats back dishevelled strength in agony,
Disproving thy man's name: and while before
The world thou burnest in a poet-fire,
We see thy woman-heart beat evermore
Through the large flame. Beat purer, heart, and higher,
Till God unsex thee on the heavenly shore,
Where unincarnate spirits purely aspire.

Source Book

The Poems Of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume 1

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Copyright 1853
Published by C. S. Francis & Co., 262 Broadway, New York
Crosby & Nichols, Boston

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