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The Cry of Children - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
English
For Class VIII
PPT by M PADMA LALITHA SHARADA
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About the Poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) was a great poet of English language. She published a collection of poems, Sonnets from the Portuguese, Aurora Leigh, The Seraphim and Other Poems.
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She married Robert Browning, a famous English poet and moved to Italy. Most of her poems deal with human emotions.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning Brownings in Venice
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“For oh,” say the children, “we are weary
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And we cannot run or leap;
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If we cared for any meadows, it were merely
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To drop down in them and sleep.
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Our knees tremble sorely in the stooping,
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We fall upon our faces, trying to go;
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And underneath our heavy eyelids drooping
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The reddest flower would look as pale as snow.
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For, all day, we drag our burden tiring
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Through the coal – dark, underground;
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Or, all day we drive the wheels or iron
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In the factories, round and round.”
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Sharada
Thank You One & All