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In honor of #DisabilityPrideMonth , I've promised to post poems from Elisabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets From The Portuguese, on the platforms I'm on: Spoutible, Facebook, and Twitter.

By now, dear reader, you probably knows where this goes.;-)
02:17 PM - Jul 01, 2023
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I've just posted the first of Barrett Browning's 44 Sonnets From The Portuguese on Facebook. I can't on twitter right now. I provided too much consumer data for the hellsite's advertisers, after all. So, in several parts, follows the first of those Sonnets...
02:19 PM - Jul 01, 2023
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ITHOUGHT 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:
02:20 PM - Jul 01, 2023
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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,
02:20 PM - Jul 01, 2023
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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."
02:21 PM - Jul 01, 2023
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