The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Volume 1. Browning Elizabeth Barrett

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personal adjustment to those heights

      Of what I see well-formed or hear well-tuned,

      But rather coupled darkly and made ashamed

      By my percipiency of sin and fall

      In melancholy of humiliant thoughts.

      But, oh! fair, dreadful Spirits – albeit this

      Your accusation must confront my soul,

      And your pathetic utterance and full gaze

      Must evermore subdue me, – be content!

      Conquer me gently – as if pitying me,

      Not to say loving! let my tears fall thick

      As watering dews of Eden, unreproached;

      And when your tongues reprove me, make me smooth,

      Not ruffled – smooth and still with your reproof,

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      The entry in the Parish Register of Kelloe Church is as follows: – Elizabeth Barrett Moulton Barrett, daughter and first child of Edward Barrett Moulton Barrett, of Coxhoe Hall, native of St James's, Jamaica, by Mary, late Clarke, native of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, was born, March 6th, 1806, and baptized 10th of February, 1808.

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      Adam recognizes in Aquarius, the Water-bearer, and Sagittarius, the Archer, distinct types of the man bearing and the man combating, – the passive and active forms of human labour. I hope that the preceding zodiacal signs – transferred to the earthly shadow and representative purpose – of Aries, Taurus, Cancer, Leo, Libra, Scorpio, Capricorn

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The entry in the Parish Register of Kelloe Church is as follows: – Elizabeth Barrett Moulton Barrett, daughter and first child of Edward Barrett Moulton Barrett, of Coxhoe Hall, native of St James's, Jamaica, by Mary, late Clarke, native of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, was born, March 6th, 1806, and baptized 10th of February, 1808.

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Adam recognizes in Aquarius, the Water-bearer, and Sagittarius, the Archer, distinct types of the man bearing and the man combating, – the passive and active forms of human labour. I hope that the preceding zodiacal signs – transferred to the earthly shadow and representative purpose – of Aries, Taurus, Cancer, Leo, Libra, Scorpio, Capricornus, and Pisces, are sufficiently obvious to the reader.

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Her maternal instinct is excited by Gemini.

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