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
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.
world conformity
Never say No when the world says Aye.
light way calling
The English have a scornful insular way Of calling the French light.
past age ill
Every age, Through being beheld too close, is ill-discerned By those who have not lived past it.
eye delight littles
And there my little doves did sit With feathers softly brown And glittering eyes that showed their right To general Nature's deep delight.