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| 845 | My books! At last, because the time was ripe, I chanced upon the poets. As the earth |
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| 850 | Plunges in fury, when the internal fires Have reached and pricked her heart, and, throwing flat The marts and temples, the triumphal gates And towers of observation, clears herself To elemental freedomthus, my soul, |
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| 855 | At poetry's divine first finger-touch, Let go conventions and sprang up surprised, Convicted of the great eternities Before two worlds. What's this, Aurora Leigh, You write so of the poets, and not laugh? |
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| 860 | Those virtuous liars, dreamers after dark, Exaggerators of the sun and moon, And soothsayers in a tea-cup? I write so Of the only truth-tellers, now left to God, The only speakers of essential truth, |
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| 865 | Opposed to relative, comparative, And temporal truths; the only holders by His sun-skirts, through conventional grey glooms; The only teachers who instruct mankind, From just a shadow on a charnel-wall, |
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| 870 | To find man's veritable stature out, [32] Erect, sublime, the measure of a man, And that's the measure of an angel, says The apostle. Ay, and while your common men Build pyramids, gauge railroads, reign, reap, dine, |
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| 875 | And dust the flaunty carpets of the world For kings to walk on, or our senators, The poet suddenly will catch them up With his voice like a thunder. . 'This is soul, This is life, this word is being said in heaven, |
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| 880 | Here's God down on us! what are you about?' How all those workers start amid their work, Look round, look up, and feel, a moment's space, That carpet-dusting, though a pretty trade, Is not the imperative labour after all. |
Erstdruck und Druckvorlage
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Aurora Leigh.
London: Chapman and Hall 1857.
Unser Auszug: S. 31-32.
Die Textwiedergabe erfolgt nach dem ersten Druck
(Editionsrichtlinien).
URL: https://archive.org/details/auroraleigh00browrich
PURL: https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t08w3np06
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