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
women mystery
Eve is a twofold mystery.
beauty sun too-much
Too much beauty, I reckon, is nothing but too much sun.
beauty love-is essence
The essence of all beauty, I call love, The attribute, the evidence, and end, The consummation to the inward sense Of beauty apprehended from without, I still call love.
book reading profound
We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits--so much help By so much reading. It is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, Impassioned for its beauty, and salt of truth-- 'Tis then we get the right good from a book.
business soul curls
The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise, I barter for curl upon that mart.
past feet history
If we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand.
men good-man may
May the good God pardon all good men.
book men speak
Books are men of higher stature, and the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
women men brain
Thou large-brain'd woman and large-hearted man.
lightning awful
Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning.
book writing ends
Of writing many books there is no end.
strong children kissing
A child's kiss Set on thy sighing lips shall make thee glad; A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich; A sick man helped by thee shall make thee strong; Thou shalt be served thyself by every sense Of service which thou renderest.
imagination earth rakes
We overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination... down our earth to rake...
courage knights bravery
The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.