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__ Elizabeth Barrett Browning __

__ About the Poet __ Elizabeth Barrett Browning is a female poet who writes mostly about love and woman's psychology, but an important segment of her work also concerned with religion, art, social problems and political events. She was born at Coxhoe Hall in Durham, England on March 6, 1806. She was the youngest of twelve children, with whom she was home schooled with. She wrote many fantastic stories throuhgout her lifetime. Her first poem was about the Battle of the Marathon, the famous battle that took place between Persia and Athens in 490 B.C. After her brother Edmund drowned at Babbacombe Bay in Torquay, Elizabeth wrote "De Profundis" to deal with her grief. Elizabeth is most famous for the "Sonnets From The Portugese" which she wrote for her love, Robert while they were dating. "The Portugese" was Robert's nickname for Elizabeth. A poem from "Sonnets From The Portugese and other poems": Poems by the Poet:



Fast this Life of mine was dying, Blind already and calm as death, Snowflakes on her bosom lying, Scarcely heaving with her breath.  Love came by, and having known her In a dream of fabled lands, Holy Hands Gently stooped, and laid upon her Mystic chrism of holy hands; Drew his smile across her folded Eyelids, as the swallow dips; Breathed as finely as the cold did Through the locking of her lips. So, when Life looked upward, being Warmed and breathed on from above, What sight could she have for seeing, Evermore...but only LOVE? ||
 * "Life and Love"


 * [[image:thepoetryplace/holy_hands.jpg caption=""Gently stooped, and laid upon her mystic chrism of holy hands;""]] ||
 * "Gently stooped, and laid upon her mystic chrism of holy hands;" ||

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A Dead Rose"

( O Rose! who dares to name thee? No longer roseate now, nor soft, nor sweet; But pale, and hard, and dry, as stubble-wheat,---

Kept seven years in a drawer---thy titles shame thee. The breeze that used to blow theeBetween the hedgerow thorns, and take awayAn odour up the lane to last all day,---If breathing now,---unsweetened would forego thee.

<span style="color: #3900ff; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 19px;">The sun that used to smite thee,And mix his glory in thy gorgeous urn,Till beam appeared to bloom, and flower to burn,---If shining now,---with not a hue would light thee.

<span style="color: #3900ff; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 19px;">The dew that used to wet thee,And, white first, grow incarnadined, becauseIt lay upon thee where the crimson was,---If dropping now,---would darken where it met thee.

<span style="color: #ff004d; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The fly that lit upon thee,To stretch the tendrils of its tiny feet,Along thy leaf's pure edges, after heat,---If lighting now,---would coldly overrun thee. <span style="color: #ff004d; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The bee that once did suck thee,And build thy perfumed ambers up his hive,And swoon in thee for joy, till scarce alive,---If passing now,---would blindly overlook thee.

<span style="color: #159ea8; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The heart doth recognise thee,Alone, alone! The heart doth smell thee sweet,Doth view thee fair, doth judge thee most complete,---Though seeing now those changes that disguise thee. <span style="color: #159ea8; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Yes, and the heart doth owe theeMore love, dead rose! than to such roses boldAs Julia wears at dances, smiling cold!---Lie still upon this heart---which breaks below thee

MORE INFORMATION: <span style="color: #ff004d; font-family: georgia,serif;">She married Robert in 1846, against her father's will. 3 years after she married Robert Browning, they had a son named Robert Weidman Barret Browning, who was born in 1849. Elizabeth later died on June 29, 1861 and was buried at the English cemetery in Florence, Italy.

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//Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.// Snowflakes on White //. Photograph. Http:// christmasstockimages.com/free/winter/slides/snowflakes_on_white.htm.

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