Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Poems (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 Excerpt: ...still remembered on warm and cold days--My Kate. Her air had a meaning, her movements a grace; You turned from the fairest to gaze on her face: And when you had once seen her forehead and mouth, You saw as distinctly her soul and her truth--My Kate. Such a blue inner light from her eyelids outbroke, You looked at her silence and fancied she spoke: When she did, so peculiar yet soft was the tone, Though the loudest spoke also, you heard her alone--My Kate. I doubt if she said to you much that could act As a thought or suggestion: she did not attract In the sense of the brilliant or wise: I infer 'Twas her thinking of others, made you think of her-Mv Kate. She never found fault with you, never implied Your wrong by her right; and yet men at her side Grew nobler, girls purer, as through the whole town The children were gladder that pulled at her gown--My Kate. None knelt at her feet confessed lovers in thrall; They knelt more to God than they used, --that was all: If you praised her as charming, some asked what you meant, But the charm of her presence was felt when she went--Mv Kate. The weak and the gentle, the ribald and rude, She took as she found them, and did them all good; It always was so with her--see what you have She has made the grass greener even here.. with her grave--My Kate. My dear one --when thou wast alive with the rest, I held thee the sweetest and loved thee the best: And now thou art dead, shall I not take thy part As thy smiles used to do for thyself, my sweet Heart--My Kate? A SONG FOE THE RAGGED SCHOOLS OF LONDON WRITTEN IN ROME. 1 Am listening here in Eome. 'England's strong, ' say many speakers, ' If she winks, the Ozar must come, Prow and topsail, to the breakers.' 4 England's rich in coal and oak, ' Adds a Eoman, getting moody, ' If s