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She never found fault with you, never implied Your wrong by her right; and yet men at her side Grew nobler, girls purer.... None knelt at her feet confessed lovers in thrall; They knelt more to God than they used—that was all.
She never found fault with you, never implied Your wrong by her right; and yet men at her side Grew nobler, girls purer.... None knelt at her feet confessed lovers in thrall; They knelt more to God than they used—that was all.
Approximate author period: c. 1833 AD · industrial
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- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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- Approximate author period: c. 1833 AD · industrial
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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 354 · printed citation: E. B. Browning (My Kate). · compiler notes excluded
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Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.
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