85. EBB to EBB
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 1, 75–76.
[Hope End]
[6 March 1819] [1]
My dearest Ba,
I love you so,
I could not let the postman go
Without a letter from me too
Not that I’ve got so much to say
For I am passing dull to day
But just my dearest Ba to prove
How much you share my partial love
Then oh may blessings best of all
That Fate has given—Upon you fall!
Then you must be my instrument
To give a handsome compliment
To Mistress Hen & Master Bro
To Master Storm & Sam also
To George & lovely Arabel
Thats all—then dearest Ba farewell!
Address, on integral page: For / Miss Ba Barrett / Hope End—
Publication: None traced.
Manuscript: Berg Collection.
1. In “Poems by EBB,” Berg Collection, Mary Moulton-Barrett dated her copy of this poem “March 6th 1819.” She also gave it the title “To Myself.”
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