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Sonnet 27 - My own Beloved who hast lifted me | Poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sonnet 27 My own Beloved who hast lifted me Poem 

................... by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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My own Beloved, who hast lifted me
From this drear flat of earth where I was thrown,
And, in betwixt the languid ringlets, blown
A life-breath, till the forehead hopefully
Shines out again, as all the angels see,
Before thy saving kiss! My own, my own,
Who camest to me when the world was gone,
And I who looked for only God, found thee!
I find thee; I am safe, and strong, and glad.

As one who stands in dewless asphodel
Looks backward on the tedious time he had
In the upper life,?so I, with bosom-swell,
Make witness, here, between the good and bad,
That Love, as strong as Death, retrieves as well.


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