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From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Browning, Robert
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One Word More
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To E. B. B., London, September, 1855
There they are, my fifty men and women Naming me the fifty poems finished! Take them, Love, the book and me together: Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also.
II
Rafael made a century of sonnets, Made and wrote them in a certain volume Dinted with the silver - pointed pencil Else he only used to draw Madonnas: These, the world might view - but one, the volume. Who that one, you ask? Your heart instructs you. Did she live and love it all her lifetime Did she drop, his lady of the sonnets, Die, and let it drop beside ...
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