The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Author:Elizabeth Barrett Browning [Browning, Elizabeth Barrett]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2010-01-18T05:00:00+00:00

The tail curls stronger when you lop the head:

They writhe at every wound and multiply

And shudder into a heap of life that’s made

Thus vital from God’s own vitality.

’T is hard to shrivel back a day of God’s

Once fixed for judgment: ’t is as hard to change

The peoples, when they rise beneath their loads

And heave them from their backs with violent wrench

To crush the oppressor; for that judgment-rod’s

The measure of this popular revenge.

Meanwhile, from Casa Guidi windows, we

Beheld the armament of Austria flow

Into the drowning heart of Tuscany:

And yet none wept, none cursed, or, if ’t was so,

They wept and cursed in silence. Silently

Our noisy Tuscans watched the invading foe;

They had learnt silence. Pressed against the wall,

And grouped upon the church-steps opposite,

A few pale men and women stared at all.

God knows what they were feeling, with their white

Constrainèd faces, they, so prodigal

Of cry and gesture when the world goes right,

Or wrong indeed. But here was depth of wrong,

And here, still water; they were silent here;

And through that sentient silence, struck along

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