VIII

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of A Dead Rose

Yes, and the heart doth owe thee

More love, dead rose! than to such roses bold

As Julia wears at dances, smiling cold!——

Lie still upon this heart—which breaks below thee!

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