English Poetry II: From Collins to Fitzgerald.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| 608. Sonnets from the Portuguese |
| | | XXXI |
| | | Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) |
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| THOU comest! all is said without a word. | |
| I sit beneath thy looks as children do | |
| In the noon-sun, with souls that tremble through | |
| Their happy eyelids from an unaverred | |
| Yet prodigal inward joy. Behold, I erred | 5 |
| In that last doubt! and yet I cannot rue | |
| The sin most, but the occasion—that we two | |
| Should for a moment stand unministered | |
| By a mutual presence. Ah, keep near and close, | |
| Thou dovelike help! and, when my fears would rise, | 10 |
| With thy broad heart serenely interpose: | |
| Brood down with thy divine sufficiencies | |
| These thoughts which tremble when bereft of those, | |
| Like callow birds left desert to the skies. | |
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