Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, COMFORT, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING


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First Line: Speak low to me, my saviour, low and sweet
Last Line: He sleeps the faster that he wept before.
Subject(s): Consolation; Religion; Theology


Speak low to me, my Saviour, low and sweet
From out the hallelujahs, sweet and low,
Lest I should fear and fall, and miss thee so
Who art not missed by any that entreat.
Speak to me as Mary at thy feet --
And if no precious gums my hands bestow,
Let my tears drop like amber, while I go
In reach of thy divinest voice complete
In humanest affection -- thus in sooth,
To lose the sense of losing! As a child
Whose song-bird seeks the woods forevermore,
Is sung to instead by mother's mouth;
Till, sinking on her breast, love-reconciled,
He sleeps the faster that he wept before.




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