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...sinketh, as a thing Which its own nature doth precipitate, While thine doth close above it mediating XXVI. I LIVED with visions for my company Instead of men...their trailing purple was not free Of this world's dust,—their lutes did silent grow, And I myself grew faint and blind below Their vanishing eyes....

...precipitate, While thine doth close above it, mediating Betwixt the stars and the unaccomplished fate. I LIVED with visions for my company Instead of men...did silent grow, And I myself grew faint and blind helow Their vanishing eyes. Then THOU didst come . . to be, Beloved, what they seemed. Their shining...

...her own. In one of the Sonnets from the Portuguese, she says, with strict autobiographic truth : " I lived with visions for my company Instead of men...thought to know A sweeter music than they played to me." This long recluse life accounts for the unique and often eccentric character of much of Mrs. Browning's...

...precipitate, While thine doth close above it, mediating Betwixt f* '~ wd the unaccomplished fate. XXVI. I LIVED with visions for my company, Instead of men...lutes did silent grow, And I myself grew faint and hlind below Their vanishing eyes. Then THOU didst come . . to be, Beloved, what they seemed. Their...

...precipitate, While thine doth close above it, mediating Betwixt the stars and the unaccomplished fate. XXVL I LIVED with visions for my company, Instead of men...did silent grow, And I myself grew faint and blind helow Their vanishing eyes. Then THOU didst come . . to be, Beloved, what they seemed. Their shining...

...precipitate. While thine doth close above it mediating Betwixt the stars and the unaccomplished fate. XXVI. I LIVED with visions for my company Instead of men and women, years ago, j And found them gentle mates, nor thought to know A sweeter music than they played to me. But soon...

...thee, far above The feeble power of words, my matchless love ? Davenport. A LOVER'S VISIONS REALIZED. I lived with visions for my company Instead of men...mates, nor thought to know A sweeter music than they play'd to me. But soon their trailing purple was not free Of this world's dust, their lutes did silent...

...thine doth close above it, mediating Betwixt the stars and the unaccomplished fate. XXVI. I I.IVEP with visions for my company, Instead of men and women,...lutes did silent grow, And I myself grew faint and Wind below Their vanishing eyes. Then TIIOU didst come . . to be, Beloved, what they seemed. Their...

...Take it thou, — finding pure, from all those years, The kiss my mother left here when she died. XXVL / thau they played to me. But soon their trailing purple was not free Of this world's dust, — their...