Sonnets from the Portuguese, 6

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Teacher card

Published: 1850, in Sonnets from the Portuguese
Length: 14 lines, 114 words, 1 word in 29 is long
Year band: Reading load: Years 3–4. A guide from word length, not a curriculum level.
Themes: love, retirement
Time: 5–10 min, depending on the activity

The text

Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall standHenceforward in thy shadow. NevermoreAlone upon the threshold of my doorOf individual life, I shall commandThe uses of my soul, nor lift my handSerenely in the sunshine as before,Without the sense of that which I forbore—Thy touch upon the palm. The widest landDoom takes to part us, leaves thy heart in mineWith pulses that beat double. What I doAnd what I dream include thee, as the wineMust taste of its own grapes. And when I sueGod for myself, He hears that name of thine,And sees within my eyes the tears of two.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (died 1861), Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850), lines 217–230 of Project Gutenberg ebook #2002. Public domain in Australia: the author died before 1955. Copied word for word and checked against the ebook.

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