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Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Poetry, by first line

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  • A Child Asleep
    How he sleepeth! having drunken
    Weary childhood's mandragore,
    60 lines, 1 comment
  • A Curse For A Nation
    Prologue
    I heard an angel speak last night,
    121 lines, 5 comments
  • A Dead Rose
    O Rose! who dares to name thee?
    No longer roseate now, nor soft, nor sweet;
    32 lines, 9 comments
  • A Musical Instrument
    What was he doing, the great god Pan,
    Down in the reeds by the river?
    42 lines
  • A Sea-Side Walk
    We walked beside the sea,
    After a day which perished silently
    35 lines, 1 comment
  • Adequacy
    NOW, by the verdure on thy thousand hills,
    Beloved England, doth the earth appear
    14 lines
  • An Apprehension
    IF all the gentlest-hearted friends I know
    Concentred in one heart their gentleness,
    14 lines
  • Ii
    But only three in all God's universe
    Have heard this word thou hast said,--Himself, beside
    14 lines
  • Change Upon Change
    Five months ago the stream did flow,
    The lilies bloomed within the sedge,
    22 lines
  • Cheerfulness Taught By Reason
    I THINK we are too ready with complaint
    In this fair world of God's. Had we no hope
    14 lines, 1 comment
  • Comfort
    SPEAK low to me, my Saviour, low and sweet
    From out the hallelujahs, sweet and low
    14 lines, 1 comment
  • Discontent
    LIGHT human nature is too lightly tost
    And ruffled without cause, complaining on--
    14 lines, 1 comment
  • Exaggeration
    WE overstate the ills of life, and take
    Imagination (given us to bring down
    14 lines
  • Futurity
    AND, O beloved voices, upon which
    Ours passionately call because erelong
    14 lines
  • Grief
    I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless;
    That only men incredulous of despair,
    14 lines
  • I
    I thought once how Theocritus had sung
    Of the sweet years, the dear and wished-for years,
    14 lines
  • Insufficiency
    When I attain to utter forth in verse
    Some inward thought, my soul throbs audibly
    14 lines
  • Irreparableness
    I HAVE been in the meadows all the day
    And gathered there the nosegay that you see
    14 lines
  • Minstrelsy
    For ever, since my childish looks
    Could rest on Nature's pictured books;
    48 lines
  • On A Portrait Of Wordsworth By B. R. Haydon
    Wordsworth upon Helvellyn ! Let the cloud
    Ebb audibly along the mountain-wind,
    14 lines
  • Pain In Pleasure
    A THOUGHT ay like a flower upon mine heart,
    And drew around it other thoughts like bees
    14 lines, 1 comment
  • Patience Taught By Nature
    'O DREARY life,' we cry, ' O dreary life ! '
    And still the generations of the birds
    14 lines
  • Perplexed Music
    Experience, like a pale musician, holds
    A dulcimer of patience in his hand,
    15 lines
  • Substitution
    WHEN some beloved voice that was to you
    Both sound and sweetness, faileth suddenly,
    14 lines
  • Tears
    THANK God, bless God, all ye who suffer not
    More grief than ye can weep for. That is well--
    14 lines
  • The Look
    The Saviour looked on Peter. Ay, no word,
    No gesture of reproach; the Heavens serene
    14 lines
  • The Meaning Of The Look
    I think that look of Christ might seem to say--
    'Thou Peter ! art thou then a common stone
    14 lines
  • The Prisoner
    I count the dismal time by months and years
    Since last I felt the green sward under foot,
    14 lines
  • The Seraph and the Poet
    THE seraph sings before the manifest
    God-One, and in the burning of the Seven,
    15 lines
  • The Two Sayings
    Two savings of the Holy Scriptures beat
    Like pulses in the Church's brow and breast;
    14 lines
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