 | Tony Childs, Jackie Moore - 2003 - Страниц: 166
...she returned the favour with this sequence. Here is one of her sonnets, 'If Thou Must Love Me . . ': If thou must love me, let it be for nought Except...her for her smile - her look - her way Of speaking gentry - for a trick of thought That falls in well with mine, and certes brought A sense of pleasant... | |
 | Susan Jean Armstrong, Richard George Botzler - 2003 - Страниц: 614
...in our estimation when it arises not from such sources but from the reason. Elizabeth Browning said, If thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only. Even to-day man's heart is still the same as that of the higher social animals, no matter how far the... | |
 | Rob Brezsny - 2005 - Страниц: 310
...them." — Martin Prechtel, Secrets of the Talking Jaguar, www.floweringmountain.com Sonnet XIV "lf thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only. Do not say 'l love her for her smile — her look — her way Of speaking gently, — for a trick of thought That... | |
 | Erin Rainwater - 2006 - Страниц: 420
...now sounded so very much like a Browning sonnet I recently read. I can only remember the first line: 'If thou must love me, let it be for nought except for love's sake only.' She goes on to say she doesn't want to be loved for her look or her smile or her gentle words or out... | |
 | Amy Christine Billone - 2007 - Страниц: 210
...of my womanhood Commend my woman-love to thy belief, — Seeing that I stand unwon, however wooed, And rend the garment of my life, in brief, By a most...fortitude, Lest one touch of this heart convey its grief. — EBB, Sonnets from the Portuguese #13 CONTENTS Acknowledgments / ix INTRODUCTION Silence, Gender,... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1986 - Страниц: 76
...of my womanhood Commend my woman-love to thy belief, — Seeing that I stand unwon, however wooed, And rend the garment of my life, in brief, By a most...fortitude, Lest one touch of this heart convey its grief. If thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only. Do not say "I love her for... | |
 | John Davey - 2007 - Страниц: 405
...head. Robert Browning (1812 - 1899) came into her life and loved her as she desired and later wrote "If thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only." And he did and as we know, displacing her father. How sad her words "...I had believed Papa to have... | |
 | mrs. warren - 1882 - Страниц: 816
...both a rage and a passion, And soon fails to receive e'en a word of comment. SONNET. J. WEBB-NICOL. IF thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only. Do not say, Of speaking gently—or a trick of thought " I love her for her smile—her look—her way That falls... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - Страниц: 848
...stand unwon, however wooed, And rend the garment of my life, in brief, run ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING. sketches first, no studies, that 's long past — xrv. IP thou must love me, let it be for naught Except for love's sake only. Do not say " I love her... | |
 | 1901 - Страниц: 394
...silver answer rung — ' Not Death, but Love.' " Then how apparent is her identity in the words — " If thou must love me let it be for nought Except for love's sake only." 24 ENGLISH SOXXETS OF THE XIX. CENTURY. And the response — " How do I love thee? Let me count the... | |
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IF thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only. Do not say " I love her for her smile — her look — her way Of speaking gently, — for a trick of thought That falls in well with mine, and certes brought A sense of pleasant... 
