WorkElizabeth Barrett Browning

The Cry of the Children

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Documented 1845–1846

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I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

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VI. Europe1record

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Miss Barrett’s Poems.

“Miss Barrett’s Poems.”

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“Do you hear the children weeping, oh my brothers: Ere the sorrow comes with years? They are leaning their young heads against their mothers, And that cannot stop their tears.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Miss Barrett’s Poems." New-York Daily Tribune, 4 January 1845. · 4 January 1845

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Miss Barrett's Poems

“Miss Barrett's Poems”

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“We must copy yet one other poem to give some idea of the range of Miss Barrett's power. THE CRY OP THE CHILDREN.”

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p205

Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p205; page given is to the 1869 reprint.