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Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. V. Browning to Rupert Brooke

Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861–1907)

The Shield

I HAVE forged me in sevenfold heats

A shield from foes and lovers,

And no one knows the heart that beats

Beneath the shield that covers.