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To: tomkow6

Seems I am wrong about Sonnets not rhyming, we see it here in this Sonnet.

Sonnet I
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I thought once how Theocritus had sung
Of the sweet years, the dear and wished-for years,
Who each one in a gracious hand appears
To bear a gift for mortals, old or young:
And, as I mused it in his antique tongue,
I saw, in gradual vision through my tears,
The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years,
Those of my own life, who by turns had flung
A shadow across me. Straightway I was ‘ware,
So weeping, how a mystic Shape did move
Behind me, and drew me backward by the hair:
And a voice said in mastery, while I strove,—
‘Guess now who holds thee ? ‘—’ Death,’ I said. But, there,
The silver answer rang,—’ Not Death, but Love.’


1,921 posted on 04/02/2008 11:04:30 AM PDT by Soaring Feather (I soar- 'cause I can...)
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To: Soaring Feather; All
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Happy Wednesday To The Lair

1,929 posted on 04/02/2008 1:45:13 PM PDT by MEG33 (God Bless Our Military)
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