Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Author:Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Sonnets, English, Love poetry, English
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
Published: 2017-12-02T19:47:22+00:00

XXVI

I lived with visions for my company

Instead of men and women, years ago,

And found them gentle mates, nor thought to know

A sweeter music than they played to me.

But soon their trailing purple was not free

Of this world’s dust, their lutes did silent grow,

And I myself grew faint and blind below

Their vanishing eyes. Then thou didst come—to be,

Beloved, what they seemed. Their shining fronts,

Their songs, their splendours—better, yet the same,

As river-water hallowed into fonts—

Met in thee, and from out thee overcame

My soul with satisfaction of all wants—

Because God’s gifts put man’s best dreams to shame.

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