Which female poet are you?
I took the "If You Were a Poet..." quiz on gURL.com
I am...
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Does love inspire you to express yourself with an ardor you didn't know you had? Nineteenth century British poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning would understand. Read more...
Which poet are you?
There weren't enough choices. I wanted Sappho, but she wasn't one of the poets they included. Elizabeth Barrett Browning definitely works for me as a second choice. I chose her to write my term paper about in 11th grade English class. I was seriously hot for her as a lovestruck teenager. Her name coming up here reveals my secret guilty pleasure: Victorian retro. Those sausage curls at the ends of her long tresses are a fashion you just don't see outside of the 1850s. And she wrote one of her sonnets about one of those curls...
I never gave a lock of hair away
To a man, Dearest, except this to thee,
Which now upon my fingers thoughtfully
I ring out to the full brown length and say
"Take it." My day of youth went yesterday;
My hair no longer bounds to my foot's glee,
Nor plant I it from rose or myrtle-tree,
As girls do, any more; it only may
Now shade upon two pale cheeks the mark of tears,
Taught drooping from the head that hangs aside
Through sorrow's trick. I thought the funeral-shears
Would take this first, but Love is justified -
Take it thou, - finding pure, from all those years,
The kiss my mother left here when she died.