IV

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

I thought—O God!—my first-born's cry

Both voices to my ear would drown:

I listened in mine agony—

It was the silence, made me groan!

And now my spinning is all done.

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