Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Portuguese XV lyrics
[Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Portuguese XV lyrics]
Accuse me not, beseech thee, that I wear
Too calm and sad a face in front of thine
For we two look two ways, and cannot shine
With the same sunlight on our brow and hair
On me thou lookest with no doubting care
As on a bee shut in a crystalline
Since sorrow hath shut me
Safe in love's divine
And to spread wing and fly in the outer air
Were most impossible failure, if I strove
To fail so but, I look on thee -on thee -
Beholding, besides love, the end of love
Hearing oblivion beyond memory!
As one who sit's and gazes from above
Over the rivers to the bitter sea
Too calm and sad a face in front of thine
For we two look two ways, and cannot shine
With the same sunlight on our brow and hair
On me thou lookest with no doubting care
As on a bee shut in a crystalline
Since sorrow hath shut me
Safe in love's divine
And to spread wing and fly in the outer air
Were most impossible failure, if I strove
To fail so but, I look on thee -on thee -
Beholding, besides love, the end of love
Hearing oblivion beyond memory!
As one who sit's and gazes from above
Over the rivers to the bitter sea