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To have quoted them even mentally in any literal sense, would have seemed to him profanation; yet the whole poem in some way not to be analysed or defined, expressed his mood and who so brutal as to seek to reduce to common-sense the emotions of a poet-lover, in the springtime of life? At length he was before the closed and shuttered house, standing silent and asleep.
Certain it is that, with the intuition of genius, Elizabeth Barrett understood, appreciated, and made allowances for the unhappy man more completely than was possible to any other of his contemporaries. Clear-sighted to his faults and weaknesses, her chivalrous spirit took up arms in defence of his conduct, even against the strictures of her poet-lover. 'The dreadful death of poor Mr.
And he had called her his rose, his Rose of Sharon. The new house was to be the garden in which she should blossom. To be sure, he had said it all awkwardly, but Rose, who was devout, knew the stately Song of Solomon and as she recalled the magnificent outburst of passion she almost let herself be convinced that Martin was a poet-lover in the rough.
It is so pathetically different from the scenes she loved in life the heather-clad slopes of her Highland home, the seclusion of the wooded braes where she loitered with her poet-lover. Scant foliage is about her; few birds sing above her here.
In 1868, she published her memoirs of the poet, filled with interesting and affecting recollections. She died as late as 1873. Some time between the year 1866 and that of her death, she is said to have visited Newstead Abbey, which had once been Byron's home. She was very old, a widow, and alone; but her affection for the poet-lover of her youth was still as strong as ever.
Louise of Albany and her poet-lover were now free to link their lives at the altar but no such thought seems to have entered the head of either. They were perfectly happy without the bond of the wedding-ring, of which the Countess had such terrible memories; and together they walked through life, happy in each other and indifferent to the world's opinion.
In 1868, she published her memoirs of the poet, filled with interesting and affecting recollections. She died as late as 1873. Some time between the year 1866 and that of her death, she is said to have visited Newstead Abbey, which had once been Byron's home. She was very old, a widow, and alone; but her affection for the poet-lover of her youth was still as strong as ever.
Though the lamp had gone out, a candle stood upon a stand at the head of his bed. What was her name? he wondered. He had never heard it, but he would call her Helen Helen, the ancient synonym of womanly beauty, but the loveliest Helen, he believed, that ever set poet-lover piping her praise.
But, oh, lovely beyond power of language to describe! past all conception, and comparable alone with fancies such as float through the brain of poet-lover as he lies dreaming of his soul's desire.
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