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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:THE POET'S VOW.O be wiser thouInstructed that true knowledge leads to lore.WO EDTHE POET'S VOW,PART THE FIRST.SHOWING WHEKEFOKB THE VOW WAS MADE.Eve is a twofold mystery;The stillness Earth doth keep, The motion wherewith human hearts Do each to either leap As if all souls between the poles Felt' Parting comes in sleep.'n. The rowers lift their oars to viewEach other in the sea; The landsmen watch the rocking boats In a pleasant company ; While up the hill go gladlier still Dear friends by two and three.The peasant's wife hath looked withoutHer cottage door and smiled, For there the peasant drops his spade To clasp his youngest child Which hath no speech, but its hand can reach And stroke his forehead mild.A poet sate that eventideWithin his hall alone, As silent as its ancient lords In the coffined place of stone, When the bat hath shrunk from the praying monk, And the praying monk is gone.Nor wore the dead a stiller faceBeneath the cerement's roll: His lips refusing out in wordsTheir mystic thoughts to dole, His steadfast eye burnt inwardly,As burning out his soul.You would not think that brow could e'erUngentle moods express, Tet seemed it, in this troubled world, Too calm for gentleness, When the very star that shines from far Shines trembling ne'ertheless.It lacked, all need, the softening lightWhich other brows supply: We should conjoin the scathed trunks Of our humanity, That each leafless spray ontwining may Look softer 'gainst the sky.vm. None gazed within the poet's face, The poet gazed in none He threw a lonely shadow straight Before the moon and sun, Affronting nature's heaven-dwelling creatures With wrong to nature don... ... Read more

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Volume: 1Publisher: London : R. BentleyPublication date: 1877Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1889Original Publisher: WorthingtonSubjects: Poets, EnglishPoets, GreekBiography ... Read more

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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1877 edition by John W. Lovell Co., New York. ... Read more

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The love letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett are among the most famous in history.Daniel Karlin's selection, based on a fresh examination of the original manuscripts, provides new insight into the clandestine correspondence which led to their elopement in 1846.These complex and subtle letters, in which they explored each others needs and desires, passions and anxieties, tell the story of how they waited many years to finally elope, overcoming certain obstacles such as the neurotic presence of Elizabeth Barrett's father, and the intense demands they made on one another. ... Read more

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I've read other poems but no such poem like one written by a browning.The world lost one great poet ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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1862. With a memorial by Theodore Tilton. The last book of verse by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, an English poet of the Romantic Movement, which was edited by her husband, the poet Robert Browning, following her death. Partial Contents: Void in Law; My Kate; Amy's Cruelty; Where's Agnes?' De Profundis; Garibaldi; Parting Lovers; Nature's Remorses; The North and South; and Translations. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. ... Read more

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:that spring is coming, for all this snow; and know me for yours ever faithfully,E. Browning.I don't dare—yet I will—ask can you read this? Because I could write a little better, but not so fast. Do you keep writing just as you do now!E. B. B. to B. B.50 Wimpole Street, February 17, 1845.Dear Mr. Browning,—To begin with the end (which is 4. only characteristic of the perverse like myself), I assureyou I read your handwriting as currently as I could read the clearest type from font. If I had practised the art of reading your letters all my life, I couldn't do it better. And then I approve of small MS. upon principle. Think of what an immense quantity of physical energy must go to the making of those immense sweeping handwritings achieved by some persons. . . Mr. Landor, for instance, who writes as if he had the sky for a copybook and dotted his i'a in proportion. People who do such things should ' wear gauntlets; yes, and have none to wear; or theywouldn't waste their time so. People who write—by profession—shall I say?—never should do it, or what will become of them when most of their strength retires into their head and heart, (as is the case with some of us and may be the case with all) and when they have to write a poem twelve times over, as Mr. Kenyon says I should do if I were virtuous? Not that I do it. Does anybody do it, I wonder? Do you, ever? From what you tell me of the trimming of the light, I imagine not. And besides, one may be laborious as a writer, without copying twelve times over. I believe there are people who will tell you in a moment what three times six is, without' doing it' on their fingers; and in the same way one may work one's verses in one's head quite as laboriously as on paper—I maintain it.I consider myself a very patient, ... ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more