Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Portuguese III lyrics
[Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Portuguese III lyrics]
Unlike our uses and our destinies
Our ministering two angels look surprise
On one another, as they strike athwart
Their wings in passing thou, bethink thee
Art
A guest for queens to social pageantries
With gages from a hundred brighter eyes
Than tears even can make mine
To play thy part
Of chief musician what hast thou to do
With looking from the lattice-lights at me
A poor, tired, wandering singer
Singing through
The dark, and leaning up a cypress tree?
The chrism is on thine head
-on mine, the dew, -
And Death must dig the
Level where these agree