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Poem by Elizabeth Barrett-Browning


Sonnets from the Portuguese. 2. But only three in all God's universe


But only three in all God's universe
Have heard this word thou hast said,—Himself, beside
Thee speaking, and me listening! and replied
One of us... that was God,... and laid the curse
So darkly on my eyelids, as to amerce
My sight from seeing thee,—that if I had died,
The deathweights, placed there, would have signified
Less absolute exclusion. 'Nay' is worse
From God than from all others, O my friend!
Men could not part us with their worldly jars,
Nor the seas change us, nor the tempests bend;
Our hands would touch for all the mountain-bars:
And, heaven being rolled between us at the end,
We should but vow the faster for the stars. 



Elizabeth Barrett-Browning


Elizabeth Barrett-Browning's other poems:
  1. Sonnets from the Portuguese. 20. Belovëd, my Belovëd, when I think
  2. Sonnets from the Portuguese. 12. Indeed this very love which is my boast
  3. Sonnets from the Portuguese. 30. I see thine image through my tears to-night
  4. Sonnets from the Portuguese. 11. And therefore if to love can be desert
  5. To Flush, My Dog

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