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Barrett-Browning, Elizabeth: Sonnets From the Portuguese III

Portre of Barrett-Browning, Elizabeth

Sonnets From the Portuguese III (English)

Unlike are we, unlike, O princely Heart!
Unlike our uses and our destinies.
Our ministering two angels look surprise
On one another, as they strike athwart
Their wings in passing. Thou, bethink thee, art
A guest for queens to social pageantries,
With gages from a hundred brighter eyes
Than tears even can make mine, to play thy part
Of chief musician. What hast thou to do
With looking from the lattice-lights at me -
A poor, tired, wandering singer, singing through
The dark, and leaning up a cypress tree?
The chrism is on thine head - on mine the dew -
And Death must dig the level where these agree.



PublisherBudapest, Magvető Kiadó
Source of the quotationSzerb Antal: Száz vers. Negyedik kiadás. 38. p.

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