<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=383864" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet IX: Can It Be Right to Give</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Can it be right to give what I can give? <br>To let thee sit beneath the fall of tears <br>As salt as mine, and hear the sighing years <br>Re-sighing on my lips renunciative <br>Through those infrequent smiles which fail to live <br>For all thy adjurations? O my fears, <br>That this can scarce be right! We are not peers, <br>So to be lovers; and I own, and grieve, <br>That givers of such gifts as mine are, must <br>Be counted with the ungenerous. Out, alas! <br>I will not soil thy purple with my dust, <br>Nor breathe my poison on thy Venice-glass, <br>Nor give thee any love--which were unjust. <br>Beloved, I only love thee! let it pass.</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=383864" data-title="Sonnet IX: Can It Be Right to Give de Elizabeth Barrett Browning" data-description="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 renunciative Through those infrequent smiles which fail to live For all thy adjurations? O my..."></div> </div> </div>

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