

... I was standing
petergiovanni wrote:I've just noticed that there's a word missing in the penultimate stanza. It happened when I had to find an alternative word to the one I used in the poem, which was too explicit and probably would be banned. I'm sure you can guess the word that's missing and its orginal one. If you like the poem, tell me why maybe
Admin wrote:What is you favorite love poem?
Admin wrote:Did you ever recited one to your beloved?![]()
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=172989 wrote:Sonnets from the Portuguese 1: I Thought how Theocritus
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I thought once how Theocritus had sung
Of the sweet years, the dear and wished for years,
Who each one in a gracious hand appears
To bear a gift for mortals, old or young:
And, as I mused it in his antique tongue,
I saw, in gradual vision through my tears,
The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years,
Those of my own life, who by turns had flung
A shadow across me. Straightway I was 'ware,
So weeping, how a mystic Shape did move
Behind me, and drew me backward by the hair,
And a voice said in mastery, while I strove, ...
Guess now who holds thee?'—Death,' I said. But there,
The silver answer rang ... Not Death, but Love.'

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