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
love anniversary romantic
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.
love dream wine
What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.
art lines ascending
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?
mom mother baby
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.
memorial-day hero men
And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.
desire-love headstone gravestone
And if God choose I shall but love thee better after death.
gratitude people thank-god
Some people always sigh in thanking God.
life breathe deepest-life
He who breathes deepest lives most.
blue clouds heaven
There are nettles everywhere, but smooth, green grasses are more common still; the blue of heaven is larger than the cloud.
essence essence-of-beauty
The essence of all beauty, I call love.
sweet flower years
O rose, who dares to name thee? No longer roseate now, nor soft, nor sweet, But pale, and hard, and dry, as stubblewheat, Kept seven years in a drawer, thy titles shame thee.