I

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of The Claim

GRIEF sate upon a rock and sighed one day:

      (Sighing is all her rest!)

"Wellaway, wellaway, ah, wellaway!"

As ocean beat the stone, did she her breast...

"Ah, wellaway!.. ah me! alas, ah me!"

      Such sighing uttered she.

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