[ { "title": "Sonnet 34 - With the same heart, I said, I'll answer thee", "author": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning", "lines": [ "With the same heart, I said, I'll answer thee", "As those, when thou shalt call me by my name—", "Lo, the vain promise! is the same, the same,", "Perplexed and ruffled by life's strategy?", "When called before, I told how hastily", "I dropped my flowers or brake off from a game,", "To run and answer with the smile that came", "At play last moment, and went on with me", "Through my obedience. When I answer now,", "I drop a grave thought, break from solitude;", "Yet still my heart goes to thee—ponder how—", "Not as to a single good, but all my good!", "Lay thy hand on it, best one, and allow", "That no child's foot could run fast as this blood." ], "linecount": "14" }, { "title": "Epitaph. Another, on the Same.", "author": "Alexander Pope", "lines": [ "Under this marble, or under this sill,", "Or under this turf, or e'en what they will;", "Whatever an heir, or a friend in his stead,", "Or any good creature shall lay o'er my head,", "Lies one who ne'er cared, and still cares not a pin", "What they said, or may say, of the mortal within:", "But who, living and dying, serene still and free,", "Trusts in God, that as well as he was, he shall be." ], "linecount": "8" }, { "title": "Ode to a Lady Whose Lover Was Killed by a Ball, Which at the Same Time Shivered a Portrait Next His Heart", "author": "George Gordon, Lord Byron", "lines": [ " _On peut trouver des femmes qui n'ont jamais eu de galanterie, mais", " il est rare d'en trouver qui n'en aient jamais eu", " qu'une_.--[_Réflexions_ ... du Duc de la Rochefoucauld, No.", " lxxiii.", "", " Lady! in whose heroic port", "And Beauty, Victor even of Time,", " And haughty lineaments, appear", " Much that is awful, more that's dear--", " Wherever human hearts resort", " _There_ must have been for thee a Court,", " And Thou by acclamation Queen,", " Where never Sovereign yet had been.", "That eye so soft, and yet severe,", " Perchance might look on Love as Crime;", "And yet--regarding thee more near--", "The traces of an unshed tear", " Compressed back to the heart,", "And mellowed Sadness in thine air,", "Which shows that Love hath once been there,", "To those who watch thee will disclose", "More than ten thousand tomes of woes", " Wrung from the vain Romancer's art.", "With thee how proudly Love hath dwelt!", "His full Divinity was felt,", "Maddening the heart he could not melt,", " Till Guilt became Sublime;", "But never yet did Beauty's Zone", "For him surround a lovelier throne,", "Than in that bosom once his own:", " And he the Sun and Thou the Clime", "Together must have made a Heaven", "For which the Future would be given.", "", "And thou hast loved--Oh! not in vain!", " And not as common Mortals love.", " The Fruit of Fire is Ashes,", " The Ocean's tempest dashes", "Wrecks and the dead upon the rocky shore:", "True Passion must the all-searching changes prove,", " The Agony of Pleasure and of Pain,", " Till Nothing but the Bitterness remain;", " And the Heart's Spectre flitting through the brain", "Scoffs at the Exorcism which would remove.", "", "And where is He thou lovedst? in the tomb,", " Where should the happy Lover be!", "For him could Time unfold a brighter doom,", " Or offer aught like thee?", "He in the thickest battle died,", " Where Death is Pride;", "And _Thou_ his widow--not his bride,", " Wer't not more free--", "_Here_ where all love, till Love is made", " A bondage or a trade,", "_Here_--thou so redolent of Beauty,", "In whom Caprice had seemed a duty,", "_Thou_, who could'st trample and despise", "The holiest chain of human ties", "For him, the dear One in thine eyes,", " Broke it no more.", "Thy heart was withered to it's Core,", "It's hopes, it's fears, it's feelings o'er:", "Thy Blood grew Ice when _his_ was shed,", "And Thou the Vestal of the Dead.", "", "Thy Lover died, as All", " Who truly love should die;", "For such are worthy in the fight to fall", " Triumphantly.", "No Cuirass o'er that glowing heart", "The deadly bullet turned apart:", "Love had bestowed a richer Mail,", " Like Thetis on her Son;", "But hers at last was vain, and thine could fail--", " The hero's and the lover's race was run.", "Thy worshipped portrait, thy sweet face,", "_Without_ that bosom kept it's place", " As Thou _within_.", "Oh! enviously destined Ball!", "Shivering thine imaged charms and all", " Those Charms would win:", "Together pierced, the fatal Stroke hath gored", "Votary and Shrine, the adoring and the adored.", " That Heart's last throb was thine, that blood", " Baptized thine Image in it's flood,", " And gushing from the fount of Faith", " O'erflowed with Passion even in Death,", "Constant to thee as in it's hour", "Of rapture in the secret bower.", "Thou too hast kept thy plight full well,", "As many a baffled Heart can tell." ], "linecount": "88" }, { "title": "The Same", "author": "Percy Bysshe Shelley", "lines": [ "(As revised by Mr. C.D. Locock.)", "", "Melodious Arethusa, o'er my verse", "Shed thou once more the spirit of thy stream:", "", "(Two lines missing.)", "", "Who denies verse to Gallus? So, when thou", "Glidest beneath the green and purple gleam", "Of Syracusan waters, mayest thou flow", "Unmingled with the bitter Dorian dew!", "Begin, and whilst the goats are browsing now", "The soft leaves, in our song let us pursue", "The melancholy loves of Gallus. List!", "We sing not to the deaf: the wild woods knew", "His sufferings, and their echoes answer...", "Young Naiades, in what far woodlands wild", "Wandered ye, when unworthy love possessed", "Our Gallus? Nor where Pindus is up-piled,", "Nor where Parnassus' sacred mount, nor where", "Aonian Aganippe spreads its...", "", "(Three lines missing.)", "", "The laurels and the myrtle-copses dim,", "The pine-encircled mountain, Maenalus,", "The cold crags of Lycaeus weep for him.", "", "(Several lines missing.)", "", "'What madness is this, Gallus? thy heart's care,", "Lycoris, mid rude camps and Alpine snow,", "With willing step pursues another there.'", "", "(Some lines missing.)", "", "And Sylvan, crowned with rustic coronals,", "Came shaking in his speed the budding wands", "And heavy lilies which he bore: we knew", "Pan the Arcadian with....", "...and said,", "'Wilt thou not ever cease? Love cares not.", "The meadows with fresh streams, the bees with thyme,", "The goats with the green leaves of budding spring", "Are saturated not--nor Love with tears.'" ], "linecount": "36" } ]