Sonnets from the Portuguese: XXXI

Sonnets from the Portuguese: XXXI

Original Text
A Selection from the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. First Series. New Edition. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1886. 1: 181-202.
1Thou comest! all is said without a word.
2I sit beneath thy looks, as children do
3In the noon-sun, with souls that tremble through
4Their happy eyelids from an unaverred
5Yet prodigal inward joy. Behold, I erred
6In that last doubt! and yet I cannot rue
7The sin most, but the occasion—that we two
8Should for a moment stand unministered
9By a mutual presence. Ah, keep near and close,
10Thou dove-like help! and, when my fears would rise,
11With thy broad heart serenely interpose:
12Brood down with thy divine sufficiencies
13These thoughts which tremble when bereft of those,
14Like callow birds left desert to the skies.
Publication Start Year
1850
RPO poem Editors
Marc R. Plamondon
RPO Edition
2007
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