Aurora Leigh (excerpts)
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Of any day or nighe moon and sun
Cut off from th,
to starve into a blind ferocity
And glare unnatural ; the very sky
(Dropping its bell-net dohe sea
As if no should scape alive,)
Bedraggled ing salt,
Until it seemed no more t holy heaven
to range
turned stranger, for a child.
ty cliffs
Looked cold upon me. Could I find a home
Among the fog ?
And w
From alien lips which had no kiss for mine
I aloud, t, t,
And some one near me said the child was mad
train s us on.
as t isle ?
t up from the fellowship
Of verdure, field from field, as man from man ;
tive,
As almost you could touch a hand,
And dared to do it they were so far off
From Gods celestial crystals ; all things blurred
And dull and vague. Did Ses
Absorb t a one
it to strike a radiant colour up
Or active outline on t air.
I ter stand
Upon tep of ry-house
to give me raight and calm,
narro
As if for taming accidental ts
From possible pulses ; brown h grey
By frigid use of life, (s old
Althers elder by a year)
A nose drae lines ;
A close mild mouttle soured about
ted loves
Or peradventure niggardly ruths ;
Eyes of no colour, -- once t have smiled,
But never, never themselves
In smiling ; c a rose
Of perished su