Love poems from the works of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning; . m PS mi r>¥h- :,!;•»! fV> LOVE POEMS 123 Hobeb 0ntt T CLASSED, appraising once, Earths lamentable sounds,—the welladay, The jarring yea and nay,TTie fall of kisses on unanswering clay,TTie sobbed farewell, the welcome moumfuller,— But all did leaven the airWith a less bitter leaven of sure despair Than these words—I loved ONCE. 11. And who saith *T loved ONCE ?Not angels—whose clear eyes, love, love forsee, Love, through by To Love do apprehend To God, called LOVE, His noble crown-name
Love poems from the works of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning; . m PS mi r>¥h- :,!;•»! fV> LOVE POEMS 123 Hobeb 0ntt T CLASSED, appraising once, Earths lamentable sounds,—the welladay, The jarring yea and nay,TTie fall of kisses on unanswering clay,TTie sobbed farewell, the welcome moumfuller,— But all did leaven the airWith a less bitter leaven of sure despair Than these words—I loved ONCE. 11. And who saith *T loved ONCE ?Not angels—whose clear eyes, love, love forsee, Love, through by To Love do apprehend To God, called LOVE, His noble crown-name casting, A light too broad for blasting:The great God, changing not from everlasting, Saith never I loved ONCE. III. Oh, never is Loved ONCEThy word, Thou Victim-Christ, misprized friend! Thy cross and curse may rend,But having loved Thou lovest to the is mans saying—mans: too weak to move One sphered star above,Man desecrates the eternal God-word Love By his No More, and Once. —r^r^^^v
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