English Poetry. Elizabeth Barrett-Browning. The Look. Элизабет Барретт-Браунинг.

Elizabeth Barrett-Browning (Элизабет Барретт-Браунинг)

The Look

The Saviour looked on Peter. Ay, no word,
No gesture of reproach; the Heavens serene
Though heavy with armed justice, did not lean
Their thunders that way: the forsaken Lord
Looked only, on the traitor. None record
What that look was, none guess; for those who have seen
Wronged lovers loving through a death-pang keen,
Or pale-cheeked martyrs smiling to a sword,
Have missed Jehovah at the judgment-call.
And Peter, from the height of blasphemy--
'I never knew this man '--did quail and fall
As knowing straight THAT GOD; and turned free
And went out speechless from the face of all
And filled the silenc, weeping bitterly. 

Elizabeth Barrett-Browning’s other poems:

1. The Soul’s Expression
2. Sonnets from the Portuguese. 30. I see thine image through my tears to-night
3. Sonnets from the portuguese. 31. Thou comest! all is said without a word
4. A Year’s Spinning
5. Aurora Leigh. Ninth Book

Poems of other poets with the same name (Стихотворения других поэтов с таким же названием):

Sara Teasdale (Сара Тисдейл) The Look (“Strephon kissed me in the spring”)

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