XIV

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of Hector in the Garden

Who could know? I sometimes started

      At a motion or a sound!

      Did his mouth speak—naming Troy,

      With an ο·το·το·το·τοι?

Did the pulse of the Strong-hearted

      Make the daisies tremble round?

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