English Poetry II: From Collins to Fitzgerald.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| 580. Sonnets from the Portuguese |
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| | | Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) |
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| UNLIKE are we, unlike, O princely Heart! | |
| Unlike our uses and our destinies. | |
| Our ministering two angels look surprise | |
| On one another, as they strike athwart | |
| Their wings in passing. Thou, bethink thee, art | 5 |
| A guest for queens to social pageantries, | |
| With gages from a hundred brighter eyes | |
| Than tears even can make mine, to play thy part | |
| Of chief musician. What hast thou to do | |
| With looking from the lattice-lights at me, | 10 |
| A poor, tired, wandering singer, singing through | |
| The dark, and leaning up a cypress tree? | |
| The chrism is on thine head,—on mine, the dew,— | |
| And Death must dig the level where these agree. | |
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