Sonnet 08 – What can I give thee back O liberal | Poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sonnet 08 What can I give thee back O liberal Poem 

………………. by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

_______________________________________________________________________________________

What can I give thee back, O liberal
And princely giver, who hast brought the gold
And purple of thine heart, unstained, untold,
And laid them on the outside of the-wall
For such as I to take or leave withal,
In unexpected largesse? am I cold,
Ungrateful, that for these most manifold
High gifts, I render nothing back at all?
Not so; not cold,?but very poor instead.

Ask God who knows.
For frequent tears have run
The colors from my life, and left so dead
And pale a stuff, it were not fitly done
To give the same as pillow to thy head.

Go farther! let it serve to trample on.

_______________________________________________________________________________________

Elizabeth Barrett Browning – Wikipedia

Elizabeth Barrett Browning – Poet | Academy of American Poets

Buy Elizabeth Barrett Browning
at Amazon

Buy Elizabeth Barrett Browning
at Barnes and Noble

_______________________________________________________________________________________

We hope you enjoyed the Sonnet 08 What can I give thee back O liberal Poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Leave a Comment