BROWNING ELIZABETH BARRETT Autograph Manuscript Signed EBB f

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EARLY POEM BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT. Autograph Manuscript Signed, "EBB," fair copy of her early poem entitled, "Fortune Telling," in sixteen lines. 1 page, 4to; some scattered and likely contemporary ink stains (not affecting legibility of text), faint scattered foxing, few lines of likely contemporary scribbled text in unknown hand on verso. Np, 1825?

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"Whose Fancy would turn Trappist, and go slave / At digging her own grave--Who would not cope / At hide and seek with Hope . . . .
". . . I fondly guess / That thy words of tenderness, and actions mild / And goodness undefil'd, and gentle eyes / Tell us thy destinys--to be belov'd!"
Unpublished in her lifetime, but appears in The Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, ed. Sandra Donaldson et al., vol. 5 (London, 2010), 449.