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Elizabeth Barrett Browning. (1806–1861) (continued)

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Or from Browning some “Pomegranate,” which if cut deep down the middle
Shows a heart within blood-tinctured, of a veined humanity.

Lady Geraldine’s Courtship. xli.

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But since he had
The genuis to be loved, why let him have
The justice to be honoured in his grave.

Crowned and buried. xxvii.

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Thou large-brained woman and large-hearted man.

To George Sand. A Desire.

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By thunders of white silence.

Hiram Powers’s Greek Slave.

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    And that dismal cry rose slowly
  And sank slowly through the air,
Full of spirit’s melancholy
  And eternity’s despair;
And they heard the words it said,—
“Pan is dead! great Pan is dead!
    Pan, Pan is dead!” 1

The dead Pan.

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She has seen the mystery hid
Under Egypt’s pyramid:
By those eyelids pale and close
Now she knows what Rhamses knows.

Little Mattie. Stanza ii.

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But so fair,
She takes the breath of men away
Who gaze upon her unaware.

Bianca among the Nightingales. xii.

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    “Yes,” I answered you last night;
  “No,” this morning, sir, I say:
Colors seen by candle-light
  Will not look the same by day.

The Lady’s Yes.

Note 1.
Thamus … uttered with a loud voice his message, “The great Pan is dead.”—Plutarch: Why the Oracles cease to give Answers. [back]

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