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
thee ifs
If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange And be all to me?
grace vain still-in-love
And yet, because I love thee, I obtain From that same love this vindicating grace, To live on still in love, and yet in vain
real fall light
Will that light come again, As now these tears come...falling hot and real!
heart wings dove
Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love. Yet love me--wilt thou? Open thine heart wide, And fold within, the wet wings of thy dove.
love romantic sweet
Love me sweet With all thou art Feeling, thinking, seeing; Love me in the Lightest part, Love me in full Being.
heart thinking doubt
In this abundant earth no doubt Is little room for things worn out: Disdain them, break them, throw them by! And if before the days grew rough We once were lov'd, us'd -- well enough, I think, we've far'd, my heart and I.
book love-you writing
OF writing many books there is no end; And I who have written much in prose and verse For others' uses, will write now for mine,- Will write my story for my better self, As when you paint your portrait for a friend, Who keeps it in a drawer and looks at it Long after he has ceased to love you, just To hold together what he was and is.
god faith religious
God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it.
creativity power ideas
What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?
sun raises sun-set
My sun sets to raise again.
respect statistics genius
Since when was genius found respectable?
writing kissing romantic-love
First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.
long standing monument
My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument.
military hero men
All actual heroes are essential men, And all men possible heroes.