• From “Aurora Leigh”
    WHOEVER lives true life, will love true love.
    I learned to love that England. Very oft,
    Before the day was born, or otherwise
    Through secret windings of the afternoons,
    I threw my hunters off and plunged myself
    Among the deep hills, as a hunted stag
    Will take the waters, shivering with the fear
    And passion of...

  • Sienna
    I Love thee, love thee, Giulio!
      Some call me cold, and some demure,
    And if thou hast ever guessed that so
      I love thee … well;—the proof was poor,
      And no one could be sure.

    Before thy song (with shifted rhymes
      To suit my name) did I undo
    The persian? If it moved sometimes,
      Thou hast not seen a hand push...

  • Her hair was tawny with gold, her eyes with purple were dark,
    Her cheeks’ pale opal burnt with a red and restless spark.

    Never was lady of Milan nobler in name and in race;
    Never was lady of Italy fairer to see in the face.

    Never was lady on earth more true as woman and wife,
    Larger in judgment and instinct, prouder in manners and life.

    She...

  • Mondd újra s újra mondd és újra mondd,
    hogy szeretsz! Bár az ismételt szavak
    kakukknótához hasonlítanak,
    emlékezz rá, hogy se mező, se domb
    nincs kakukknóta nélkül, ha a lomb
    újul tavasszal s kizöldül a mag.
    Egyszeri szó, mint szellem hangja, vak
    sötétben zeng el és kétség borong
    nyomában. Ismételd...szeretsz... Ki fél,
    hogy a rét túl sok...