Blog : Elizabeth understood... (a sonnet by EBB)

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12/9/2008 10:26 pm

Elizabeth understood... (a sonnet by EBB)

This makes me feel not so alone on a cold and rainy night. I have been reading EBB's sonnets- the ones she wrote to her beloved RB. Although she died over 100 years before I was ever born her words are fresh and they give me hope as they speak straight to my heart and soul- this is appropriately #13

Sonnets from the Portuguese: XIII (13)

1)And wilt thou have me fashion into speech
2)The love I bear thee, finding words enough,
3)And hold the torch out, while the winds are rough,
4)Between our faces, to cast light on each?–
5)I drop it at thy feet. I cannot teach
6)My hand to hold my spirits so far off
7)From myself–me–that I should bring thee proof
8 )In words, of love hid in me out of reach.
9)Nay, let the silence of my womanhood
10)Commend my woman-love to thy belief,–
11)Seeing that I stand unwon, however wooed,
12)And rend the garment of my life, in brief,
13)By a most dauntless, voiceless fortitude,
14)Lest one touch of this heart convey its grief.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)

God's love reaches all- growing means thinking outside the box... love one another