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The Complete Works of Mrs. E.b. Browning; Romaunt of Margret. Drama of Exile. Lady Geraldine. Vision of Poets, and Other Poems
The Complete Works of Mrs Eb Browning Romaunt of Margret Drama of Exile Lady Geraldine Vision of Poets and Other Poems Author:Elizabeth Barrett Browning General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1903 Original Publisher: Riverdale Press Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can... more » select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: POEMS. 1844. De patrie, et de Dieu, des poetes, de 1'Sme Qui s'dive en priant. -- Victor Hugo. DcMcatUnt TO MT FATHER. When your eyes fall upon this page of dedication, and you start to see to whom it is inscribed, your first thought will be of the time far off when I was a child and wrote verses, and when I dedicated them to you who were my public and my critic. Of all that such a recollection implies of saddest and sweetest to both of us, it would become neither of us to speak before the world; nor would it be possible for us to speak of it to one another, with voices that did not falter. Enough, that what is in my heart when I write thus, will be fully known to yours. And my desire is that you, who are a witness how if this art of poetry had been a less earnest object to me, it must have fallen from exhausted hands before this day, -- that you, who have shared with me in things bitter and sweet, softening or enhancing them, every day, -- that you, who hold with me, over all sense of loss and transiency, one hope by one Name, -- may accept from me the inscription of these volumes, the exponents of a few years of an existence which has been sustained and comforted by you as well as given. Somewhat more faint-hearted than I used to be, it is my fancy thus to seem to return to a visible personal dependence on you, as if indeed I were a child again ; to conjure your beloved image between myself and the public, so as to be sureof one smile, -- and to satisfy my heart while I sanctify my ambition, by associating with the great pursuit of my life its tenderest ...« less