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MY STAR by ROBERT BROWNING

Poet Analysis

First Line: ALL THAT I KNOW / OF A CERTAIN STAR
Last Line: MINE HAS OPENED ITS SOUL TO ME; THEREFORE I LOVE IT.
Subject(s): BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT (1806-1861); LOVE;

ALL, that I know
Of a certain star
Is, it can throw
(Like the angled spar)
Now a dart of red,
Now a dart of blue;
Till my friends have said
They would fain see, too,
My star that dartles the red and the blue!
Then it stops like a bird; like a flower, hangs furled:
They must solace themselves with the Saturn above it.
What matter to me if their star is a world?
Mine has opened its soul to me; therefore I love it.



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