“Thou hast thy calling to some palace-floor,
Most gracious singer of high poems! where
The dancers will break footing, from the care
Of watching up thy pregnant lips for more.”

—  Elizabeth Barrett Browning , book Sonnets from the Portuguese

No. IV
Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)

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