V

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

If I dared leave this smile, she said,

And take a moan upon my mouth,

And tie a cypress round my head,

And let my tears run smooth,—

It were the happier way, she said.

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