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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand
Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall standGo from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand Henceforward in thy shadow. Nevermore Alone upon the threshold of my door Of individual life, I shall…Elizabeth Barrett Browning: The face of all the world is changed, I think
The face of all the world is changed, I thinkThe face of all the world is changed, I think, Since first I heard the footsteps of thy soul Move still, oh, still, beside me, as they stole…Elizabeth Barrett Browning: What can I give thee back, O liberal
What can I give thee back, O liberalWhat can I give thee back, O liberal And princely giver, who hast brought the gold And purple of thine heart, unstained, untold, And laid them on the…Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Can it be right to give what I can give?
Can it be right to give what I can give?Can it be right to give what I can give? To let thee sit beneath the fall of tears As salt as mine, and hear the sighing years Re-sighing on my lips…Sonnets from the Portuguese
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Contents I thought once how Theocritus had sung But only three in all God's universe Unlike are we, unlike, O princely Heart! Thou hast thy calling to…Philip II, king of Spain, Naples, and Sicily
(Encyclopedia) Philip II, 1527–98, king of Spain (1556–98), king of Naples and Sicily (1554–98), and, as Philip I, king of Portugal (1580–98). Philip was not the bloodthirsty tyrant portrayed by…Hilliard, Nicholas
(Encyclopedia) Hilliard, Nicholas, 1537–1619, English miniature painter, son of a goldsmith. Trained first as a jeweler, he was court painter to Elizabeth and to James I. The first true miniaturist…Elizabeth Charlotte of Bavaria
(Encyclopedia) Elizabeth Charlotte of Bavaria, 1652–1722, German princess, called the Princess Palatine and also known as Charlotte Elizabeth; wife of Philippe I d'Orléans, brother of King Louis XIV…O'Neill, Shane
(Encyclopedia) O'Neill, Shane, 1530?–1567, Irish chieftain. The eldest son of Con O'Neill, 1st earl of Tyrone, he carried on a bitter feud with his father after Con accepted Henry VIII's nomination…Yonge, Charlotte Mary
(Encyclopedia) Yonge, Charlotte MaryYonge, Charlotte Maryyŭng [key], 1823–1901, English novelist. Her writing as well as her life was restricted by the rigid High Church tenets of her upbringing. In…