Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnet IV: “Thou Hast Thy Calling”
Thou hast thy calling to some palace-floor,Most gracious singer of high poems! whereThe dancers will break footing, from the careOf
Thou hast thy calling to some palace-floor,Most gracious singer of high poems! whereThe dancers will break footing, from the careOf
Unlike are we, unlike, O princely Heart!Unlike our uses and our destinies.Our ministering two angels look surpriseOn one another, as
Read MoreBut only three in all God’s universeHave heard this word thou has said,—Himself, besideThee speaking, and me listening! and repliedOne
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Read MoreGold mouths cry with the green youngcertainty of the bronze boyremembering a thousand autumnsand how a hundred thousand leavescame sliding
Read More“Gold mouths cry with the green young” The opening line introduces an unusual image where something valuable, symbolized by “gold
Read MoreGold mouths cry with the green youngcertainty of the bronze boyremembering a thousand autumnsand how a hundred thousand leavescame sliding
Read MoreI can stay awake all night, if need be —Cold as an eel, without eyelids.Like a dead lake the dark
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