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This reads as a declaration of idealized, long-held love. It suggests not just attraction to a real person, but devotion to an imagined shape of them, loved across time and distance. It lands as a tender line in a love letter or private confession, where affection is bound up with memory, longing, and the feeling that someone was always meant to be cherished.
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About Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Books by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets from the Portuguese
1896
Aurora Leigh, and other poems
1892