A Heavy Heart, Beloved, Have I Borne

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Title:     A Heavy Heart, Beloved, Have I Borne
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning [More Titles by Browning]

Sonnet XXV.

A heavy heart, Beloved, have I borne
From year to year until I saw thy face,
And sorrow after sorrow took the place
Of all those natural joys as lightly worn
As the stringed pearls, each lifted in its turn
By a beating heart at dance-time. Hopes apace
Were changed to long despairs, till God's own grace
Could scarcely lift above the world forlorn
My heavy heart. Then _thou_ didst bid me bring
And let it drop adown thy calmly great
Deep being! Fast it sinketh, as a thing
Which its own nature doth precipitate,
While thine doth close above it, mediating
Betwixt the stars and the unaccomplished fate.

[The end]
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poem: Heavy Heart, Beloved, Have I Borne

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