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Poems Of Robert Browning: Evelyn Hope
From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Browning, Robert
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Evelyn Hope
Beautiful Evelyn Hope is dead! Sit and watch by her side an hour. That is her book - shelf, this her bed; She plucked that piece of geranium - flower, Beginning to die too, in the glass; Little has yet been changed, I think: The shutters are shut, no light may pass Save two long rays through the hinge's chink.
Sixteen years old when she died! Perhaps she had scarcely heard my name; It was not her time to love; beside, Her life had many a hope and aim, Duties enough and little cares, And now was quiet, now astir, Till God's hand beckoned unawares, - And the sweet ...
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