Lyric Poem · Nature

Sonnet 44 - Beloved, thou hast brought me many flowers

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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1Beloved, thou hast brought me many flowers

2Plucked in the garden, all the summer through

3And winter, and it seemed as if they grew

4In this close room, nor missed the sun and showers.

5So, in the like name of that love of ours,

6Take back these thoughts which here unfolded too,

7And which on warm and cold days I withdrew

8From my heart's ground. Indeed, those beds and bowers

9Be overgrown with bitter weeds and rue,

10And wait thy weeding; yet here's eglantine,

11Here 's ivy!—take them, as I used to do

12Thy fowers, and keep them where they shall not pine.

13Instruct thine eyes to keep their colors true,

14And tell thy soul their roots are left in mine.

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Poem: Sonnet 44 - Beloved, thou hast brought me many flowers
Poet: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Length: 14 lines
Form: Lyric Poem
Themes: Nature, Love, Winter

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Author record: Elizabeth Barrett Browning1806–1861
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Lyric Poem Nature Love Winter

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