Poem by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton

Sonnet 5. BECAUSE I know that there is that in me

BECAUSE I know that there is that in me
Of which thou shouldst be proud, and not ashamed,--
Because I feel one made thy choice should be
Not even by fools and slanderers rashly blamed,--
Because I fear, howe'er thy soul may strive
Against the weakness of that inward pain,
The falsehoods which my enemies contrive
Not always seek to wound thine ear in vain,--
Therefore I sometimes weep, when I should smile,
At all the vain frivolity and sin
Which those who know me not (yet me revile)--
My would-be judges--cast my actions in;
But else their malice hath nor sting nor smart--
For I appeal from them, Beloved, to thine own heart!

1. The Chapel Royal St. James’s, on the 10th February, 1840
2. Sonnet 13. LITTLE they think, the giddy and the vain
3. The Fever-Dream
4. The Careless Word
5. Sonnet 9. WHEN our young Queen put on her rightful crown

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