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
fall sleep tears
And friends, dear friends,--when it shall be That this low breath is gone from me, And gone my bier ye come to weep, Let One, most loving of you all, Say, "Not a tear must o'er her fall; He giveth His beloved sleep.
wings eagles genius
The denial of contemporary genius is the rule rather than the exception. No one counts the eagles in the nest, till there is a rush of wings; and lo! they are flown.
dream heart destiny
Life treads on life, and heart on heart; We press too close in church and mart To keep a dream or grave apart.
larks littles soar
The music soars within the little lark, And the lark soars.
love death answers
Guess now who holds thee?'--'Death,' I said. But, there, The silver answer rang, . . . 'Not Death, but Love.
life sweet song
Unless you can feel when the song is done No other is sweet in its rhythm; Unless you can feel when left by one That all men else go with him.
disappear endure
Love that endures, from life that disappears!
life love-life true-life
Whoever lives true life, will love true love.
love faith philosophical
Who so loves believes the impossible.
happiness death greek
The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'
faith desire enough
If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.
inspirational motivational christmas
God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
love sake ifs
If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.
deeds pay monsters
What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed - and not for pay? Absurd - or insincere?