V

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

As if my tender mother laid

      On my shut lids, her kisses' pressure,

Half-waking me at night; and said,

      "Who kissed you through the dark, dear guesser?"

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