文档介绍：1 Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Book II (lines between two excerpts in the Norton anthology). Saying which, I loosed my wreath. And, swinging it beside me as I walked, Half petulant, half playful, as we walked, I sent a sidelong look to find his thought, – As falcon set on falconer ’ s finger may, With sidelong head, and startled, braving eye, 120 Which means, ‘ You ’ ll see – you ’ ll see! I ’ ll soon take flight – You shall not hinder. ’ He, as shaking out His hand and answering ‘ Fly then, ’ did not speak, Exc ept by such a gesture. Silently We paced, until, ing into sight Of the house - windows, he abruptly caught At one end of the swinging wreath, and said ‘Aurora! ’ There I stopped short, breath and all. ‘Aurora, let ’ s be serious, and throw by This game of head and heart. Life means, be sure, 130 Both heart and head, – both active, plete, And both in earnest. Men and women make The world, as head and heart make human life. Work man, work woman, since there ’ s work to do In this beleaguered earth, fo r head and heart, And thought can never do the work of love! But work for ends, I mean for uses; not For such sleek fringes (do you call them ends? Still less God ’ s glory) as we sew ourselves Upon the velvet of those baldaquins 140 Held ‘ twixt us and the s un. That book of yours, I have not read a page of; but I toss A rose up – it falls calyx down, yo