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SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 6 by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING

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First Line: GO FROM ME. YET I FEEL THAT I SHALL STAND
Last Line: AND SEES WITHIN MY EYES THE TEARS OF TWO.
Subject(s): LOVE; LOVE - MARITAL; LOVE - NATURE OF; WEDDED LOVE; MARRIAGE - LOVE;

Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand
Henceforward in thy shadow. Nevermore
Alone upon the threshold of my door
Of individual life, I shall command
The uses of my soul, nor lift my hand
Serenely in the sunshine as before,
Without the sense of that which I forbore,...
Thy touch upon the palm. The widest land
Doom takes to part us, leaves thy heart in mine
With pulses that beat double. What I do
And what I dream include thee, as the wine
Must taste of its own grapes. And when I sue
God for myself, he hears that name of thine,
And sees within my eyes the tears of two.



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