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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Wrote 44 love sonnets to Robert Browning before they married in secret. Sonnet 29 is one.

Lord ByronPercy Bysshe ShelleyRobert BrowningElizabeth Barrett BrowningThomas HardyCharlotte MewC. Day-LewisCharles CausleySeamus HeaneySimon ArmitageCarol Ann DuffyOwen SheersMaura DooleyDaljit NagraAndrew Waterhouse

The quotes

3 quotes by or about Elizabeth Barrett Browning, in the order they happen.

I think of thee!

Barrett Browning · Sonnet 29: I think of thee! · romantic love · distance

The first words. She cannot stop thinking about him. The thoughts grow like vines round a tree.

my thoughts do twine and bud About thee, as wild vines, about a tree

Barrett Browning · Sonnet 29: I think of thee! · romantic love · distance

Her thoughts are wild vines climbing him. Too many. They hide the tree.

I do not think of thee—I am too near thee.

Barrett Browning · Sonnet 29: I think of thee! · romantic love

The last line. When he is here she does not need to think of him. He is too close to think about.

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