Elizabeth Barrett-Browning (Элизабет Барретт-Браунинг)
Sonnets from the Portuguese. 40. Oh, yes! they love through all this world of ours!
Oh, yes! they love through all this world of ours! I will not gainsay love, called love forsooth: I have heard love talked in my early youth, And since, not so long back but that the flowers Then gathered, smell still. Mussulmans and Giaours Throw kerchiefs at a smile, and have no ruth For any weeping. Polypheme’s white tooth Slips on the nut if, after frequent showers, The shell is over-smooth,—and not so much Will turn the thing called love, aside to hate Or else to oblivion. But thou art not such A lover, my Belovëd! thou canst wait Through sorrow and sickness, to bring souls to touch, And think it soon when others cry “Too late.”
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning’s other poems:
- The Soul’s Expression
- Sonnets from the Portuguese. 30. I see thine image through my tears to-night
- Sonnets from the portuguese. 31. Thou comest! all is said without a word
- A Year’s Spinning
- Aurora Leigh. Ninth Book
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