Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
O May I Join the Choir Invisible…
“ Never came near thee: Thou lovest, but ne’er knew love’s sad satiety. Waking or asleep, Thou of death must deem Things more true and deep Than we mortals dream, Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream? ”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
O May I Join the Choir Invisible…
“ Until we hardly see, we feel, that it is there. All the earth and air With thy voice is loud, As, when night is bare, From one lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed. What thou art we know not ”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
O May I Join the Choir Invisible…
“ Speak plain the word ‘country.’ I taught them, no doubt, That a country’s a thing men should die for at need. I prated of liberty, rights, and about The tyrant turned out.And when their eyes flashed, oh, my beautiful eyes! I exulted! nay, let them go forth at the wheels Of the guns, and denied not. But then the surprise, When one sits quite alone! Then one weeps, then one kneels! —God! how the house feels. ”
