Arts & Sciences
XCII
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume 2
Arts & Sciences
Blame me not. I would not squander life in grief--I am abstemious.
I but nurse my spirit's falcon that its wing may soar again.
There's no room for tears of weakness in the blind eyes of a Phemius:
Into work the poet kneads them, and he does not die till then.
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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. “XCII.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/browning_e/166/.
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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. “XCII.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/browning_e/166/.
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