The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Browning (1887)

S$118.00

The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Browning (1887)

S$118.00

Title: The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Browning (Complete)
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Publisher: Nims & Knight, 1887
Condition: Hardcover, tall decorative cloth, in good condition for its age, bright and well-bound. Some browning of pages (no p

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Title: The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Browning (Complete)
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Publisher: Nims & Knight, 1887
Condition: Hardcover, tall decorative cloth, in good condition for its age, bright and well-bound. Some browning of pages (no pun intended).

About E.B. Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (6 March 1806 – 29 June 1861) was one of the most prominent poets of the Victorian era. Her poetry was widely popular in both England and the United States during her lifetime. A collection of her last poems was published by her husband, Robert Browning, shortly after her death.

Exaggeration

WE overstate the ills of life, and take
Imagination (given us to bring down
The choirs of singing angels overshone
By God’s clear glory) down our earth to rake
The dismal snows instead, flake following flake,
To cover all the corn; we walk upon
The shadow of hills across a level thrown,
And pant like climbers: near the alder brake
We sigh so loud, the nightingale within
Refuses to sing loud, as else she would.
O brothers, let us leave the shame and sin
Of taking vainly, in a plaintive mood,
The holy name of GRIEF !–holy herein
That by the grief of ONE came all our good.