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
eye color waking
Nosegays! leave them for the waking, Throw them earthward where they grew Dim are such, beside the breaking Amaranths he looks unto. Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do.
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.
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No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.
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You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
heart warm
We have hearts within, Warm, live, improvident, indecent hearts.
ignorance mean greatness
An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.
greatness thinking incompleteness
And I smiled to think God's greatness flowed around our incompleteness; Round our restlessness, His rest.
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What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.
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What is art but the life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?
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Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.
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And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.
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And if God choose I shall but love thee better after death.
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Some people always sigh in thanking God.