I
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Published 01/07/1880
Part of A Woman's Shortcomings
SHE has laughed as softly as if she sighed!
She has counted six and over,
Of a purse well filled, and a heart well tried—
Oh, each a worthy lover!
They "give her time;" for her soul must slip
Where the world has set the grooving:
She will lie to none with her fair red lip—
But love seeks truer loving.