Elizabeth Barrett Browning

By Vachel Lindsay

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Sat gossiping with Robert.

  (She was really a raving beauty in her day.

  With Mary Pickford curls in clouds and whirls.)

  She was trying to think of something nice to say,

  So she pointed to a page by her fellow star and sage,

  And said: "I wish that I could write that way!"

Composition date is unknown - the above date represents the first publication date.The lyrical form of this poem is abcdcec.

1. Victorian poet, married to Robert Browning.

4. Mary Pickford: Toronto-born stage and screen actress,

"America's sweetheart," whose second husband was the

swashbuckling Douglas Fairbanks.