Poetry & Verse
Human Life's Mystery (excerpt)
By Elizabeth Barrett BrowningSource: Elizabeth Barrett Browning - PoetryDB (Public Domain)151 words
We sow the glebe, we reap the corn, We build the house where we may rest, And then, at moments, suddenly, We look up to...
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We sow the glebe, we reap the corn, We build the house where we may rest, And then, at moments, suddenly, We look up to the great wide sky, Inquiring wherefore we were born... For earnest or for jest? The senses folding thick and dark About the stifled soul within, We guess diviner things beyond, And yearn to them with yearning fond; We strike out blindly to a mark Believed in, but not seen.…
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