II

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of A Woman's Shortcomings

She trembles her fan in a sweetness dumb,

      As her thoughts were beyond recalling;

With a glance for one, and a glance for some,

      From her eyelids rising and falling.

—Speaks common words with a blushful air;

      —Hears bold words, unreproving:

But her silence says—what she never will swear—

      And love seeks better loving.

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