Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browningwas one of the most prominent English poets of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth6 March 1806
life stars flower
Who can fear Too many stars, though each in heaven shall roll- Too many flowers, though each shall crown the year? Say thou dost love me, love me, love me-toll The silver iterance!-only minding, Dear, To love me also in silence, with thy soul.
patience mean
I worked with patience which means almost power.
patience gestures bears
And I must bear What is ordained with patience, being aware Necessity doth front the universe With an invincible gesture.
patience strong
In your patience ye are strong.
rose touching tears
Our Euripides the human, With his droppings of warm tears, and his touchings of things common Till they rose to meet the spheres.
cousin hands blood
He's just, your cousin, ay, abhorrently, He'd wash his hands in blood, to keep them clean.
time rare-things
Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.
girl stars prayer
The flower-girl's prayer to buy roses and pinks, held out in the smoke, like stars by day.
beautiful fall health
Men of science, osteologists And surgeons, beat some poets, in respect For nature,-count nought common or unclean, Spend raptures upon perfect specimens Of indurated veins, distorted joints, Or beautiful new cases of curved spine; While we, we are shocked at nature's falling off, We dare to shrink back from her warts and blains.
mother motherhood license
So mothers have God's license to be missed.
wall talking years
I have done most of my talking by post of late years--as people shut up in dungeons take up with scrawling mottoes on the walls.
eye color brighter
Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do.
sorry eye joyous
Large, musing eyes, neither joyous nor sorry.
mad sometimes pity
A woman's pity sometimes makes her mad.