...no other eldest born. i, THE SOUL'S EXPRESSION. ВТ ELIZABETH B. BARBETT. WITH stammering lips nnd insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right That music of my nature, day and night Both dmiin, und thought, and fee ling interwound, And inly answering all the senses round With ofUtvcK...

...the violent needs of the life that possesses them. Conscious expression becomes a sort of agony:— With stammering lips and insufficient sound, I strive and struggle to deliver right The music of my nature. . . . But if I did it, as the thumler-roll Breaks its own cloud, my flesh would...

...silence, as of the falling tears of an angel. -® -® ®-® SONNETS. SONNETS. THE SOUL'S EXPRESSION. WITH stammering lips and insufficient sound, I strive...With dream and thought and feeling, interwound ; And mly answering all the senses round With octaves of a mystic depth and height, Which step out grandly...

...utmost extent. " I strive and struggle," she says, and says it with wonderful vigour and ahility— With stammering lips and insufficient sound, I strive...day and night With dream and thought and feeling, intcrwound ; And inly answering all tho senses round With octaves of a mystic depth and height, Which...

...spheric tune — proving our work The better for the sweetness of our song. THE SOUL'S EXPRESSION. WITH stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive...deliver right That music of my nature, day and night Both dream, and thought, and feeling interwound, And inly answering all the senses round With octaves...

...own mystical emotions. It is the soul " falling away from the imagination." THE BOUb's EXPRESSION. WITH stammering lips, and insufficient sound I strive...deliver right That music of my nature, day and night Both dream, and thought, and feeling ¡nterwound, And inly answering all the senses round With octaves...

...spectator ! Are its eyelids wet ? If it could weep, it could arise and go ! THE SOUL'S EXPRESSION. WITR stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and...deliver right That music of my nature, day and night Both dream, and thought, and feeling interwound, And inly answering all the senses round With octaves...

...nature, day and night Both dream, and thought, and feeling interwooiwf, And inly answering all foe aenses round With octaves of a mystic depth and height, Which...out grandly to the infinite From the dark edges of the sensual ground ! This song of soul I struggle to outbear Through portals of the sense, sublime...

...no longer soundeth, Wilt thou list another's laughter ? Be it so ! Sonnete. THE SOUL'S EXPRESSION. WITH stammering lips and insufficient sound, I strive...out grandly to the infinite From the dark edges of the sensual ground ! This song of soul I struggle to outbear Through portals of the sense, sublime...

...that may Befit your narrow hearts, away In His broad, loving will. SONNETS. THE SOUL'S EXPRESSION. WITH stammering lips and insufficient sound, I strive...out grandly to the infinite From the dark edges of the sensual ground ! This song of soul I struggle to outbear Through portals of the sense, sublime...