XVI

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of A Child's Grave at Florence

Poor earth, poor heart!—too weak, too weak,

To miss the July shining!

Poor heart!—what bitter words we speak,

When God speaks of resigning!

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