V

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

Bury me 'twixt my mother's grave,

      Who cursed me on her death-bed lone,

And my dead baby's—(God it save!)

      Who, not to bless me, would not moan.

      And now my spinning is all done.

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