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Poems Of Robert Browning: Lost Mistress, The

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From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Browning, Robert

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Lost Mistress, The

All's over, then: does truth sound bitter As one at first believes? Hark, 'tis the sparrows' good - night twitter About your cottage eaves!

And the leaf - buds on the vine are woolly, I noticed that, to - day; One day more bursts them open fully - You know the red turns gray.

To - morrow we meet the same then, dearest? May I take your hand in mine? Mere friends are we, - well, friends the merest Keep much that I resign:

For each glance of the eye so bright and black, Though I keep with heart's endeavour, - Your voice, when you wish the snowdrops back, ...

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