A Woman's Shortcomings
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A Woman's Shortcomings
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Hears bold words, unreproving;
Unless you can know, when unpraised by his breath,
Unless you can dream that his faith is fast,
And drop a smile to the bringer;
And love seeks better loving.
As her thoughts were beyond recalling;
She has counted six, and over,
She tremb九九藏书网les her fan in a sweetness dumb,
From her eyelids rising and falling;
She has laughed as softly as if she sighed,
Unless you can swear "For life, for death!" -
Through behoving and unbehoving;
But her silence says - what she never will swear -
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Where the world has set the grooving;
No other is soft in the rhythm;
Unless you can feel, when left by One,
That all men else go with him;
Then smile as sweetly, when he is far,
But love seeks truer loving.
Bask tenderly beneath tender eyes;
Unless you can mhttp://www.99lib.netuse in a crowd all day
That your beauty itself wants proving;
With the breadth of heaven betwixt you;
But dare not call it loving!
Glance lightly, on their removing;
She will lie to none with her fair red lip:
On the absent face that fixed you;
Unless you can die when 九九藏书网the dream is past -
And join new vows to old perjuries -
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Speaks common words with a blushful air,
Unless you can love, as the angels may,
Oh, never call it loving!
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Oh, fear to call it loving!
Unle藏书网ss you can think, when the song is done,
Oh, each a worthy lover!
Of a purse well filled, and a heart well tried -
Go, lady! lean to the night-guitar,
At the voice of an in-door singer.
They "give her time"; for her soul must slip
With a glance for one, and a glance for some,
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