A Woman's Shortcomings Comments
She has laughed as softly as if she sighed,
She has counted six, and over,
Of a purse well filled, and a heart well tried -
Oh, each a worthy lover!
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EBB was born before her time. She is the most genius female poetess.
(8) ... she gave birth to a son, Robert Wiedemann Barrett Browning, whom they called Pen. Their son later married but had no legitimate children. At her husband's insistence, the second edition of Elizabeth’s Poems included her love sonnets; as a result, her popularity increased (as well as critical regard) , and her position was confirmed.
(7) ...As Elizabeth had some money of her own, the couple were reasonably comfortable in Italy, and their relationship together was harmonious. The Brownings were well respected in Italy, and even famous. Elizabeth grew stronger and in 1849, at the age of 43, between four miscarriages,
(6) ....Wilson, who witnessed the marriage, accompanied the couple to Italy. Mr. Barrett disinherited Elizabeth, as he did each of his children who married. Elizabeth had foreseen her father's anger but not expected the disgust of her brothers, who saw Browning as a lower-class gold-digger and refused to see him.
(5) ...Six years his elder and an invalid, she could not believe that the vigorous and worldly Robert Browning really loved her as much as he professed to. After a private marriage at St. Marylebone Parish Church, they honeymooned in Paris. Browning then imitated his hero Shelley by spiriting his wife off to Italy, in September 1846, which became her home almost continuously until her death. Elizabeth's loyal nurse,
(4) ....of a woman of great learning, rich experience, and powerful genius, uniting to her woman’s nature the strength which is sometimes thought peculiar to a man. The courtship and marriage between Robert Browning and Elizabeth were carried out secretly as she and her siblings were convinced their father would disapprove.
(3) ....It is the story of a female writer making her way in life, balancing work and love. The writings depicted in this novel are based on similar, personal experiences that Elizabeth suffered through herself. The North American Review praised Elizabeth’s poem in these words: Mrs. Browning’s poems are, in all respects, the utterance of a woman—
(2) .... Portuguese was a pet name Browning used. Sonnets from the Portuguese also refers to the series of sonnets of the 16th-century Portuguese poet Luís de Camões; in all these poems she used rhyme schemes typical of the Portuguese sonnets. The verse-novel Aurora Leigh, her most ambitious and perhaps the most popular of her longer poems, appeared in 1856............please read (3)
(1) To know about her poem, we must dive first in her life as she was leading................she is my fav. poetess, since I was a teen. CONGRATULATIONS to the family of the late Mrs. E.Barrett Browning. Due to Robert Browning, she became this famous. True love gained a female genius poetess, yes!
Woman! ! With her fair red lips! And to drop a smile! ! ! ! ! ! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.
VERY nice! I felt such a smooth warm flow while reading this masterpiece! ! ! thanks!
........my favourite stanza... Unless you can muse in a crowd all day On the absent face that fixed you; Unless you can love, as the angels may, With the breadth of heaven betwixt you; Unless you can dream that his faith is fast, Through behoving and unbehoving; Unless you can die when the dream is past - Oh, never call it loving!
I just wanted to say that I, like Justin Hayward, was reminded of this poem when I saw the movie 'Adventure' with Clark Gable and Greer Garson, whose movies I just adore, but have to admit I had never seen this movie. It brought the poem back into mind and I had to go search for it to read it in full again. I remembered how I kept a copy of it on the corkboard above my desk at college. Who does not remember Browning from his/her college days? Different kind of movie for Gable and Garson, but memorable because of them.
Wonderful.., by very good fortune I stumbled upon this lovely poem via a Classic movie starring Greer Garson / Clark Gable called 'Adventure'.Again fortune smiled on me and fate took a hand on youtube...and here I am. Her poems and this movie are just what the doctor ordered for a rank sentimentalist... and aspiring romantic. Greer Garson delivers the last stanza impeccably! What a GREAT MOVIE..... WHAT A GREAT POEM! ! now to reading all of her works.See the Film....
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8/1/2025 1:58:51 AM # 1.0.0
A beautifully worded verse