<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=116051" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To George Sand</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A Desire<br>Thou large-brained woman and large-hearted man,<br>Self-called George Sand! whose soul, amid the lions<br>Of thy tumultuous senses, moans defiance<br>And answers roar for roar, as spirits can:<br>I would some mild miraculous thunder ran<br>Above the applauded circus, in appliance<br>Of thine own nobler nature's strength and science,<br>Drawing two pinions, white as wings of swan,<br>From thy strong shoulders, to amaze the place<br>With holier light! that thou to woman's claim<br>And man's, mightst join beside the angel's grace<br>Of a pure genius sanctified from blame<br>Till child and maiden pressed to thine embrace<br>To kiss upon thy lips a stainless fame.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>A Recognition<br>True genius, but true woman! dost deny<br>The woman's nature with a manly scorn,<br>And break away the gauds and armlets worn<br>By weaker women in captivity?<br>Ah, vain denial! that revolted cry<br>Is sobbed in by a woman's voice forlorn,-<br>Thy woman's hair, my sister, all unshorn<br>Floats back dishevelled strength in agony,<br>Disproving thy man's name: and while before<br>The world thou burnest in a poet-fire,<br>We see thy woman-heart beat evermore<br>Through the large flame. Beat purer, heart, and higher,<br>Till God unsex thee on the heavenly shore<br>Where unincarnate spirits purely aspire!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Elizabeth+Barrett+Browning">Elizabeth Barrett Browning</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=116051" data-title="To George Sand de Elizabeth Barrett Browning" data-description="A Desire/Thou large-brained woman and large-hearted man,/Self-called George Sand! whose soul, amid the lions/Of thy tumultuous senses, moans defiance/And answers roar for roar, as spirits can:/I would some mild miraculous thunder ran/Above the app..."></div> </div> </div>

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