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
developed seemed stood sun
He, in his developed manhood, stood A little sunburnt by the glare of life; While I, it seemed no sun had shone on me
developed scholars-and-scholarship
He, in his developed manhood, stood, a little sunburn by the glare of life.
absurd deed great hour monster
What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed -- and not for pay? Absurd -- or insincere?
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What is art but 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?
age children fist until
Children use the fist / Until they are of the age to use the brain.
love tears thee
I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears of all my life.
breadth count depth height love scholars-and-scholarship soul thee
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
breadth count depth ends feeling height ideal love sight soul thee
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.
felt sure
I felt so young, so strong, so sure of God.
again kings
And kings crept out again to feel the sun.
drawn face hero light man ready stands
And each man stands with his face in the light of his own drawn sword. Ready to do what a hero can.
gate ground iron teeth
The iron gate ground its teeth to let me pass!
memories genius might
The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental.
world pitcher wells
With what cracked pitchers go we to deep wells In this world!