<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=383906" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet XXII</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When our two souls stand up erect and strong,<br>Face to face, silent, drawing nigh and nigher,<br>Until the lengthening wings break into fire<br>At either curved point,--what bitter wrong<br>Can the earth do to us, that we should not long<br>Be here contented ? Think. In mounting higher,<br>The angels would press on us and aspire<br>To drop some golden orb of perfect song<br>Into our deep, dear silence. Let us stay<br>Rather on earth, Beloved,--where the unfit<br>Contrarious moods of men recoil away<br>And isolate pure spirits, and permit<br>A place to stand and love in for a day,<br>With darkness and the death-hour rounding it.</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=383906" data-title="Sonnet XXII de Elizabeth Barrett Browning" data-description="When our two souls stand up erect and strong, Face to face, silent, drawing nigh and nigher, Until the lengthening wings break into fire At either curved point,--what bitter wrong Can the earth do to us, that we should not long Be here contented ?..."></div> </div> </div>

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