Albani, Francesco (1578-1660) Venus Attended By Nymphs And Cupids - Grief by Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Antonio Vivaldi - Lute Concerto in D major

Albani, Francesco (1578-1660)

Venus Attended By Nymphs And Cupids

Antonio Vivaldi - Lute Concerto in D major

Grief

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless;

That only men incredulous of despair,

Half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air

Beat upward to God's throne in loud access

Of shrieking and reproach. Full desertness,

In souls as countries, lieth silent-bare

Under the blanching, vertical eye-glare

Of the absolute Heavens. Deep-hearted man, express

Grief for thy Dead in silence like to death--

Most like a monumental statue set

In everlasting watch and moveless woe

Till itself crumble to the dust beneath.

Touch it; the marble eyelids are not wet:

If it could weep, it could arise and go.