English Poetry II: From Collins to Fitzgerald.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| 621. Sonnets from the Portuguese |
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| | | Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) |
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| BELOVED, thou hast brought me many flowers | |
| Plucked in the garden, all the summer through | |
| And winter, and it seemed as if they grew | |
| In this close room, nor missed the sun and showers. | |
| So, in the like name of that love of ours, | 5 |
| Take back these thoughts which here unfolded too, | |
| And which on warm and cold days I withdrew | |
| From my heart’s ground. Indeed, those beds and bowers | |
| Be overgrown with bitter weeds and rue, | |
| And wait thy weeding; yet here’s eglantine, | 10 |
| Here’s ivy!—take them, as I used to do | |
| Thy flowers, and keep them where they shall not pine | |
| Instruct thine eyes to keep their colors true, | |
| And tell thy soul their roots are left in mine. | |
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