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
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.
mother motherhood license
So mothers have God's license to be missed.
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.
wall moving angel
Through heaven and earth God's will moves freely, and I follow it, As color follows light. He overflows The firmamental walls with deity, Therefore with love; His lightnings go abroad, His pity may do so, His angels must, Whene'er He gives them charges.
children heart sleep
For me, my heart, that erst did go Most like a tired child at a show, That sees through tears the mummers leap, Would now its wearied vision close, Would childlike on His love repose, Who giveth His Beloved, sleep.
crowns royalty foreheads
Many a crown Covers bald foreheads.
dream men blue
How joyously the young sea-mew Lay dreaming on the waters blue, Whereon our little bark had thrown A little shade, the only one; But shadows ever man pursue.
song voice joy
Sing, seraph with the glory! heaven is high. Sing, poet with the sorrow! earth is low. The universe's inward voices cry "Amen" to either song of joy and woe. Sing, seraph, poet! sing on equally!
world singers lasts
When God helps all the workers for His world, The singers shall have help of Him, not last.
grief heaven sorrow
Earth may embitter, not remove, The love divinely given; And e'en that mortal grief shall prove The immortality of love, And lead us nearer heaven.