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YOUNG AURORA Day and night I worked my rhythmic thought. AURORA The rose fell from either cheek, my eyes globed luminous through orbits of blue shadow. And my pulse would shudder along the purple veined wrist like a shot bird. YOUNG AURORA I worked on. On through the bristling fence of nights and days which hedges time in from the eternities. AURORA The midnight oil would stink sometimes. YOUNG AURORA There came some vulgar needs. I had to live so I could work. AURORA And, being poor, I was constrained to work with one hand for the booksellers, YOUNG AURORA While working with the other for myself and art. AURORA You swim with feet as well as hands or make small way. YOUNG AURORA I understood that, in England, no one lives by verse that lives. AURORA And, apprehending this, I resolved by prose to make a space to sphere my living verse. YOUNG AURORA I wrote for encyclopaedias, magazines and weekly papers. Holding up my name to keep it from the mud. Having bread for just so many days, just breathing room for body and soul, I stood up straight and worked my veritable work. AURORA And as the soul which grows within a child makes the child grow, 40
YOUNG AURORA Or as the fiery sap, careering through a tree, dilates the summer foliage out, in green flame - so life, deepening in me, deepened all: the course I took, the work I did. AURORA Indeed, academic law, convinced of sin, instructed the critics to cry out on my falling off, regret the passing of the first manner. YOUNG AURORA But I felt my heart's life throbbing in my verse to show how it lived. It also, certainly incomplete, disordered, all human in blood, but even its very tumors, still organized by and implying life. 41
Page 1 and 2: Aurora Leigh - Love and Revolution
Page 3 and 4: compelled to be true to the Victori
Page 5 and 6: The Cast (the first workshop produc
Page 7 and 8: Act One Act Two …. Scene 1 Candle
Page 9 and 10: Scene 1 Candlelight (Auroras) Auror
Page 11 and 12: And thus beloved, she died. He made
Page 13 and 14: YOUNG AURORA All things blurred and
Page 15 and 16: Love. Love my child, love. AURORA Y
Page 17 and 18: AURORA I had relations with the uns
Page 19 and 20: Scene 2 There’s Only Now (Players
Page 21 and 22: Scene 3 Awakening (Auroras, Aunt Le
Page 23 and 24: touch let go conventions and sprang
Page 25 and 26: Scene 4 Truth and Beauty (Players)
Page 27 and 28: Scene 5 Birthday (Auroras, Romney,
Page 29 and 30: I stood there fixed. AURORA YOUNG A
Page 31 and 32: YOUNG AURORA With which conclusion
Page 33 and 34: YOUNG AURORA Whoever says to a loya
Page 35 and 36: Scene 6 Naked (Players) PLAYER TWO
Page 37 and 38: PLAYER ONE What I was saying in the
Page 39: YOUNG AURORA Or I saw fog only. The
Page 43 and 44: garlic. Then whatever else we eat t
Page 45 and 46: Scene 9 Fully Loaded (Players) Play
Page 47 and 48: YOUNG AURORA he drank and slept and
Page 49 and 50: She heard them yell. AURORA MARIAN
Page 51 and 52: YOUNG AURORA I think it frets the s
Page 53 and 54: Lady Waldemar is good. ROMNEY YOUNG
Page 55 and 56: YOUNG AURORA There is none good sav
Page 57 and 58: AURORA Romney stood and tried to sp
Page 59 and 60: Scene 11 Strike (Players) Players e
Page 61 and 62: Act Two Scene 1 Revelation (Players
Page 63 and 64: Exert a double vision: YOUNG AURORA
Page 65 and 66: AURORA Keep up the fire and leave t
Page 67 and 68: LADY WALDEMAR Miss Leigh, I have a
Page 69 and 70: Scene 3 Great Power (Players) Playe
Page 71 and 72: YOUNG AURORA So I mused up and down
Page 73 and 74: YOUNG AURORA I ought to write to Ro
Page 75 and 76: MARIAN He is mine. I am as proud as
Page 77 and 78: not? He overgrows a grave with viol
Page 79 and 80: Scene 6 Dear Lady Waldemar Revisite
Page 81 and 82: AURORA We'll breathe softly and sti
Page 83 and 84: Paints futile pictures. Writes unre
Page 85 and 86: Scene 7 Labors of Love (Players) Pl
Page 87 and 88: Scene 8 New Moon (Auroras, Romney,
Page 89 and 90: LADY WALDEMAR So I read your book,
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morning in the dew that you would s
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Epilogue Good Spirits (Players) PLA
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as poems should be written rarely a
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each side of a most expressive face
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