This photo--from Internet--Rohingya refugees rescued and resting on land--5-23-2015
Renowned for her love poems, and her love affair and marriage to Robert Browning, after being kept in captivity as an "invalid" for years by her domineering father, I never even knew she was involved in politics.
I could not find my print copy, but here it is--
make sure to open the link and read it--
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-curse-for-a-nation/
for those of you who don't know, she also wrote the quintessential lines
"How do I love you, let me count the ways--I love you to the height and depth and breadth, my soul can reach--"
After she eloped with Robert, they had a son and she spent the rest of her life on the Continent.
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