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
death horse men
When the dust of death has choked a great man's voice, the common words he said turn oracles, the common thoughts he yoked like horses draw like griffins.
death fall sleep
O Earth, so full of dreary noises! O men, with wailing in your voices! O delved gold, the wader's heap! O strife, O curse, that o'er it fall! God makes a silence through you all, And "giveth His beloved, sleep.
patience
I work with patience, which is almost power.
sleep secret remember
There, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understand.
drinking gnats rose
As the moths around a taper, As the bees around a rose, As the gnats around a vapour, So the spirits group and close Round about a holy childhood, as if drinking its repose.
despair rooms christ
Where Christ brings His cross He brings His presence; and where He is none are desolate, and there is no room for despair.
sweet art future
O Death, O Beyond, Thou art sweet, thou art strange!
gold strikes plague
The plague of gold strikes far and near.
men mountain speak
Mountain gorses, do ye teach us . . . . That the wisest word man reaches Is the humblest he can speak?
kissing dust idols
God keeps a niche In Heaven, to hold our idols; and albeit He brake them to our faces, and denied That our close kisses should impair their white,-- I know we shall behold them raised, complete, The dust swept from their beauty, glorified, New Memnons singing in the great God-light.
lying sleep looks
Tis aye a solemn thing to me To look upon a babe that sleeps-- Wearing in its spirit-deeps The unrevealed mystery Of its Adam's taint and woe, Which, when they revealed lie, Will not let it slumber so.
morning mean love-is
Nor myrtle--which means chiefly love: and love Is something awful which one dare not touch So early o' mornings.
soul world dangerous
Souls are dangerous things to carry straight through all the spilt saltpetre of this world.
believe men wish
You believe In God, for your part?--that He who makes Can make good things from ill things, best from worst, As men plant tulips upon dunghills when They wish them finest.