IX

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of A Sabbath Morning at Sea

I could not bear to sit alone

      In nature's fixed benignities,

            While my warm pulse was moving.

Too dark thou art, O glittering sun,

      Too strait ye are, capacious seas,

            To satisfy the loving.

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