“I saw, in gradual vision through my tears,
The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years,
Those of my own life, who by turns had flung
A shadow across me.”
― Sonnets from the Portuguese
The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years,
Those of my own life, who by turns had flung
A shadow across me.”
― Sonnets from the Portuguese
“Beloved, let us live so well our work shall still be better for our love, and still our love be sweeter for our work.”
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“The world of books is still the world.”
― Aurora Leigh
― Aurora Leigh
“You have touched me more profoundly than I thought even you could have touched me - my heart was full when you came here today. Henceforward I am yours for everything.”
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“The face of all the world is changed, I think,
Since first I heard the footsteps of they soul
Move still, oh, still, beside me...”
― Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Love Poems
Since first I heard the footsteps of they soul
Move still, oh, still, beside me...”
― Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Love Poems
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