Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Portuguese VIII lyrics
[Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Portuguese VIII lyrics]
What can I give thee back, O liberal
And princely giver, who hast brought the gold
And purple of thine heart, unstained, untold
And laid them on the outside of the wall
For such as I to take or leave withal
In unexpected largesse? am I cold
Ungrateful, that for these most manifold
High gifts, I render nothing back at all?
Not so not cold, -but very poor instead
Ask God who knows for frequent tears have run
The colours from my life, and left so dead
And pale a stuff, it were not fitly done
To give the same as pillow to thy head
Go farther! let it serve to trample on
And princely giver, who hast brought the gold
And purple of thine heart, unstained, untold
And laid them on the outside of the wall
For such as I to take or leave withal
In unexpected largesse? am I cold
Ungrateful, that for these most manifold
High gifts, I render nothing back at all?
Not so not cold, -but very poor instead
Ask God who knows for frequent tears have run
The colours from my life, and left so dead
And pale a stuff, it were not fitly done
To give the same as pillow to thy head
Go farther! let it serve to trample on
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