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Poems Of Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Sonnets I - XIX

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From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Sonnets I - XIX

I

I thought once how Theocritus had sung Of the sweet years, the dear and wished - for years, Who each one in a gracious hand appears To bear a gift for mortals, old or young: And, as I mused it in its antique tongue, I saw, in gradual vision through my tears, The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years, Those of my own life, who by turns had flung A shadow across me. Straightway I was 'ware, So weeping, how a mystic Shape did move Behind me, and drew me backward by the hair; And a voice said in mastery, while I strove, - "Guess now who holds thee?" - ...

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