 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...  Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Poetical Works - Page 213by Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1873Full view - About this book
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1850 - 596 pages
...mediating Betwixt the stars and the unaccomplished fate. XXVI. I I.IVED with visions for my company Instead of men and women, years ago, And found them gentle...their splendours . . . (better, yet the same, . , , As river- water hallowed into fonts . . .) Met in thee, and from out thee overcame My soul with satisfaction... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1851 - 252 pages
...precipitate, While thine doth close above it mediating XXVI. I LIVED with visions for my company Instead of men and women, years ago, And found them gentle...their trailing purple was not free Of this world's dust,—their lutes did silent grow, And 1 myself grew faint and blind below Their vanishing eyes.... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1852 - 252 pages
...precipitate, While thine doth close above it mediating XXVI. I LIVED with visions for my company Instead of men and women, years ago, And found them gentle...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.... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1853 - 508 pages
...mediating Betwixt the stars and the unaccomplished fate. I LIVED with visions for my company Instead of men and women, years ago, And found them gentle...did silent grow, And I myself grew faint and blind helow Their vanishing eyes. Then THOU didst come . . to be, Beloved, what they seemed. Their shining... | |
 | 1857 - 608 pages
...penetrated with the sweetness of its love. Thus she sings : " I lived with visions for my company Instead of men and women, years ago, And found them gentle...they seemed. Their shining fronts, Their songs, their splendors . . (better, yet the same, . . As river-water hallowed into fonts . .) Met in thee, and from... | |
 | 1861 - 606 pages
...Portuguese, she says, with strict autobiographic truth : " I lived with visions for my company Instead of men and women, years ago, And found them gentle...thought to know A sweeter music than they played to me." This long recluse life accounts for the unique and often eccentric character of much of Mrs. Browning's... | |
 | 1862 - 364 pages
...in one of the " Sonnets from the Portuguese " : — " I lived with visions for my company, Instead of men and women, years ago, And found them gentle...grew faint and blind below Their vanishing eyes." She languished. Her friends despaired of ever seeing her in health, or, indeed, of keeping her long... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1862 - 480 pages
...mediating Betwixt f* '~ wd the unaccomplished fate. XXVI. I LIVED with visions for my company, Instead of men and women, years ago, And found them gentle...lutes did silent grow, And I myself grew faint and hlind below Their vanishing eyes. Then THOU didst come . . to be, Beloved, what they seemed. Their... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1864 - 420 pages
...mediating Betwixt the stars and the unaccomplished fate. XXVL I LIVED with visions for my company, Instead of men and women, years ago, And found them gentle...did silent grow, And I myself grew faint and blind helow Their vanishing eyes. Then THOU didst come . . to be, Beloved, what they seemed. Their shining... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1870 - 533 pages
...unaccomplished fate. XXVI. I LIVED with visions for my company Instead of men and women, years ago, j And found them gentle mates, nor thought to know A...played to me. But soon their trailing purple was not Of this world's dust, — their lutes did silent grow, And I myself grew faint and blind below Their... | |
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