Aurora is the effort 1
Of the Celestial Face
Unconsciousness of Perfectness
To simulate, to Us.
Of the Celestial Face
Unconsciousness of Perfectness
To simulate, to Us.
(F.1002/J.1002)
[1] Aurora:: Aurora Leith, a book by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861). ED praised Browning's writings, but disapproved her view on women's talent of art in this book:
We women are too apt to look to one,
Which proves a certain impotence in art.
We strain our natures at doing something great,
Far less because it's something great to do,
Than, haply, that we, so, commend ourselves
As being not small, and more appreciable
To some one friend. We must have mediators
Betwixt our highest conscience and the judge;
Some sweet saint's blood must quicken in our palms. . . .
Must I work in vain,
Without the approbation of a man?
It cannot be; it shall not. ─ Book Fifth, Aurora Leith (1857)
