--hard
straight
lines
To score lies out!
To score lies out!
Elizabeth Browning
No, not she:
Rather I! or whence this damp
Cold corruption's misery?
While my very mourners stamp
Closer in the clods on me.
XXII.
And my mouth is full of dust
Till I cannot speak and curse--
Speak and damn him . . . "Blame's unjust"?
Sin blots out the universe,
All because she would and must?
XXIII.
She, my white rose, dropping off
The high rose-tree branch! and not
That the night-wind blew too rough,
Or the noon-sun burnt too hot,
But, that being a rose--'t was enough!
XXIV.
Then henceforth may earth grow trees!
No more roses!
--hard straight lines
To score lies out! none of these
Fluctuant curves, but firs and pines,
Poplars, cedars, cypresses!
END OF THE FOURTH VOLUME.
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LONDON
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Archaic and variable spelling and hyphenation are preserved.
Passages in italics indicated by _underscores_.
Greek transliterations indicated by ~tildes~.
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Rather I! or whence this damp
Cold corruption's misery?
While my very mourners stamp
Closer in the clods on me.
XXII.
And my mouth is full of dust
Till I cannot speak and curse--
Speak and damn him . . . "Blame's unjust"?
Sin blots out the universe,
All because she would and must?
XXIII.
She, my white rose, dropping off
The high rose-tree branch! and not
That the night-wind blew too rough,
Or the noon-sun burnt too hot,
But, that being a rose--'t was enough!
XXIV.
Then henceforth may earth grow trees!
No more roses!
--hard straight lines
To score lies out! none of these
Fluctuant curves, but firs and pines,
Poplars, cedars, cypresses!
END OF THE FOURTH VOLUME.
PRINTED BY
SPOTTISWOODE AND CO. , NEW-STREET SQUARE
LONDON
* * * * *
Transcriber Notes
Archaic and variable spelling and hyphenation are preserved.
Passages in italics indicated by _underscores_.
Greek transliterations indicated by ~tildes~.
End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Poetical Works of Elizabeth
Barrett Browning, Volume IV, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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