Sonnets from the Portuguese: XXXIV

Sonnets from the Portuguese: XXXIV

Original Text
A Selection from the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. First Series. New Edition. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1886. 1: 181-202.
1With the same heart, I said, I’ll answer thee
2As those, when thou shalt call me by my name—
3Lo, the vain promise! is the same, the same,
4Perplexed and ruffled by life’s strategy?
5When called before, I told how hastily
6I dropped my flowers or brake off from a game,
7To run and answer with the smile that came
8At play last moment, and went on with me
9Through my obedience. When I answer now,
10I drop a grave thought, break from solitude;
11Yet still my heart goes to thee—ponder how—
12Not as to a single good, but all my good!
13Lay thy hand on it, best one, and allow
14That no child’s foot could run fast as this blood.
Publication Start Year
1850
RPO poem Editors
Marc R. Plamondon
RPO Edition
2007
Form
sonnet