Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Grief lyrics
[Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Grief lyrics]
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless
That only men incredulous of despair
Half taught in anguish
Through the midnight air
Beat upward to God's throne in loud access
Of shrieking and reproach full desertness
In souls as countries, lieth silent bare
Under the blanching, vertical eye-glare
Of the absolute Heavens deep hearted man
Express
Grief for thy Dead in silence like to death -
Most like a monumental statue set
In everlasting watch and moveless woe
Till it'self crumble to the dust beneath
Touch it the marble eyelids are not wet:
If it could weep, it could arise and go
That only men incredulous of despair
Half taught in anguish
Through the midnight air
Beat upward to God's throne in loud access
Of shrieking and reproach full desertness
In souls as countries, lieth silent bare
Under the blanching, vertical eye-glare
Of the absolute Heavens deep hearted man
Express
Grief for thy Dead in silence like to death -
Most like a monumental statue set
In everlasting watch and moveless woe
Till it'self crumble to the dust beneath
Touch it the marble eyelids are not wet:
If it could weep, it could arise and go