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BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT. Autograph manuscript of two sonnets ("Paint azure eyes, dark lashes held in fee...") and ("This chestnut fall of ringlets not so full..."), both working manuscripts with numerous deletions and revisions, n.d. 2 pages, 8vo, small nick at top edge of sheet, slightly browned along one margin. . Two working manuscripts of considerable interest for the presence of quite extensive revisions and reworkings in some five lines of the first poem and seven lines of the second; most of the deleted words remaining clearly readable. The first sonnet begins: "Bright azure eyes, dark lashes hold in fee Paint fair superfluous ringlets, without check, That drop past one another [an]other down the neck - As many to the cheek, as you might see Green leaves to a wild rose...." Its final two lines read: "So smell this flower come near it. Such can grow In that sole garden where Christ's sweat was blood." The handwriting of the second poem is quite hurried. The verses begin: "This chestnut fall of ringlets not so full As fine..."