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
girl song names
XI I sang his name instead of song; Over and over I sang his name: Backward and forward I sang it along, With my sweetest notes, it was still the same! I sang it low, that the slave-girls near Might never guess, from what they could hear, That all the song was a name.
heart may loathe
Quick-loving hearts ... may quickly loathe.
love-is our-love beloved
Beloved, let us live so well our work shall still be better for our love, and still our love be sweeter for our work.
quiet enough virtuous
She lived, we'll say, A harmless life, she called a virtuous life, A quiet life, which was not life at all (But that she had not lived enough to know)
passion men use
I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use
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?