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
heart singing cheerful
O pusillanimous Heart, be comforted And, like a cheerful traveller, take the road Singing beside the hedge.
art love-is art-is
Art is much, but love is more ...
soul golden thrones
The soul hath snatched up mine all faint and weak,And placed it by thee on a golden throne,-- And that I love (O soul, we must be meek!)Is by thee only, whom I love alone.
taught caught rhythm
I, who thought to sink, was caught up into love, and taught the whole of life in a new rhythm.
proud looks daring
Yet how proud we are, In daring to look down upon ourselves!
tone speak
I cannot speak in happy tones.
angel world mines
New angel mine, unhoped for in the world!
Pan is dead! great Pan is dead! Pan, Pan is dead!
book men higher
... books are men of higher stature ...
writing seems courses
Like to write? Of course, of course I do. I seem to live while I write - it is life, for me.
art mean secret
I would confide to you perhaps my secret profession of faith - which is ... which is ... that let us say and do what we please and can ... there is a natural inferiority of mind in women - of the intellect ... not by any means, of the moral nature - and that the history of Art and of genius testifies to this fact openly.
tyrants use injustice
The tyrant should take heed to what he doth, Since every victim-carrion turns to use, And drives a chariot, like a god made wroth, Against each piled injustice.
cheerful possibility faculty
much of the possibility of being cheerful comes from the faculty of throwing oneself beyond oneself ...
criticism together foolishness
Foolishness and criticism are so apt, do so naturally go together!