I lived with visions for my company
Instead of men and women, years ago,
And found them gentle mates, nor thought to know
A sweeter music than they played to me.
But soon their trailing purple was not free
Of this world's dust, their lutes did silent grow,
And I myself grew faint and blind below
Their vanishing eyes. Then thou didst come, to be,
Belovëd, what they seemed. Their shining fronts,
Their songs, their splendours, (better, yet the same,
As river-water hallowed into fonts)
Met in thee, and from out thee overcame
My soul with satisfaction of all wants:
Because God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.

(C) Elizabeth Barrett Browning
06/28/2019


Best Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• Xxx
• Sonnet 24 - Let The Worlds Sharpness, Like A Clasping Knife
• Sonnet 21 - Say Over Again, And Yet Once Over Again
• Sonnet 06 - Go From Me. Yet I Feel That I Shall Stand
• Sonnet 26 - I Lived With Visions For My Company
• The Cry Of The Children
• A Musical Instrument
• The Best Thing In The World
• Sonnet 10 - Yet, Love, Mere Love, Is Beautiful Indeed
• Sonnet 42 - my Future Will Not Copy Fair My Past
• Sonnet Ii
• Sonnet 27 - My Own Beloved, Who Hast Lifted Me
• Sonnet 35 - If I Leave All For Thee, Wilt Thou Exchange
• Bianca Among The Nightingales
• Grief
• Sonnet 36 - When We Met First And Loved, I Did Not Build
• Sonnet 25 - A Heavy Heart, Beloved, Have I Borne
• Sonnet 03 - Unlike Are We, Unlike, O Princely Heart!
• Sonnet 11 - And Therefore If To Love Can Be Desert
• Sonnet 09 - Can It Be Right To Give What I Can Give?
• Sonnet 18 - I Never Gave A Lock Of Hair Away